Source: Mandurah Mail
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MANDURAH students had a taste of the walking dead this week with the help of Australian actor Myles Pollard.
The McLeod’s Daughters actor, with the help of Murdoch University film students and a film crew, had Coodanup Community College students working both in front and behind the camera in the film Zombiefied.
A Murdoch University community initiative, the movie is aimed at getting children in the Mandurah and Rockingham area interested in the film industry.
“It’s about getting the kids inspired and be part of the filmmaking process and show them that the process needs commitment and discipline,” Pollard said.
“And maybe being a part of this they will rethink about going to university and go into maybe something like post production, cinematography or whatever.
There is such a broad base of opportunities that they can go into.
- Myles Pollard
“There is such a broad base of opportunities that they can go into.”
Pollard is also known for his roles on Underbelly, East West 101, Rescue: Special Ops and Sea Patrol.
Pollard said even if the students left the experience still not wanting to go into film, what they learnt could still have a positive effect on other aspects of life.
With the amount of discipline it takes to work in the film industry, he said if the students walked away from set having learnt that, it would infect everything in life.
“It’s also about ownership,” Pollard said.
“By having an input with this film really creates that.
“That’s not something you can be taught but once you learn it, it’s great.”
Zombiefied is the story of a group of children fighting over a jar of jellybeans in a post-apocalyptic school when they are faced with a life or death situation.
While the film will never make it onto the big screen, students and their families will be able to see it at a special screening at the school, as well as at the premier at the Murdoch University open day on August 27.
“None of them have been on set before,” Pollard said.
“So on the first day it was a little bit daunting for them but by the last day they will be better actors than I ever will be.”
