The Appletree foundation

LIAM DURNIN, AARON MCGAHON,
Hey there everyone, we're here today to talk to you about the Appletree Foundation, situated in Roden House between the library and St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Appletree Foundation is a facility that is underused in our opinion and we are delighted to get the chance to show what it offers the youth of Dundalk.

Pearl Deary, the "leader of el Appletree", tries to keep her finger on the pulse of what young peoe in Dundalk can benefit from. Over the years she has provided workshops on 'Music appreciation' and 'Radio presenting'. Twi of the courses we have been involved in were a film-making module and a creative writing workshop.

In the film-making module, we learned how to use various camera angles, tips on script writing and reading, and acting skills. All in all we learned what it's like to make a professional film, what decisions are made to get the perfect shot and how specific you have to be to create the illusion of real life on screen. With film studies being a module in the Leaving cert, experimenting wirh this genre was time well spent. We'll be writing more about Creative writing when we have the course done. Go appletree!