This post was written by Ashley Morgan on behalf of the SIT Knowledge Exchange Team.
As part of a recent creative engagement project, Ash Morgan and Sophie Gardiner delivered a series of storytelling and filmmaking workshops at Bhac Primary School. The project invited pupils to explore local folklore and community history through the mediums of film and animation.
The programme began with a storytelling workshop inspired by the Pixar narrative structure, encouraging pupils from Primary 5–7 to develop their own characters and story arcs. This was followed by filmmaking sessions where pupils explored animation, green screen techniques, live-action filming, and storytelling.
One group created a fully animated film using Procreate, centred on “Skreggy,” a mythical monster said to live in Stornoway harbour. Another group produced a live-action action film inspired by the character of Lord Leverhulme, while a third project followed pilots based at Stornoway Airport on a mission to save a passenger pigeon. A key focus throughout the project was producing the films in Gaelic.
