Students changed roles on Friday, ditching the books and becoming actors in a short film they created with The Noosa Film Academy.

Oscar winning Greg Huglin stepped students through the ins and out of film making and directing, and helped them storyboard, film and edit their own original short film in a full day workshop.

Students learned about planning scenes, blocking and framing on camera, overlapping scenes and dialogue, and how that all connects during editing to make a seamless film. This is part of a project called The Kindness Umbrella, stories of passing on kindness, that will be part of the Mary Poppins Storytelling Festival.

Students engaged well in all aspects of the day and it was a great experience in a sector of the Arts industry.