So anyway, a group of school children from Cherbourg State School in Australia entered a short film in the Queensland Young Filmmakers Festival 2009, and apparently won the "Story with Impact" award. Their prize was a visit to the set of Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
A behind the scenes tour of the set was a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit the Magical world of Narnia. We even got to stand at the helm of the Dawn Treader! Thanks to Ernie Malik and Alicia Mayer Beverley (see below) for making this possible. The young filmmakers from Cherbourg, are now looking forward to their tour of the John Cox Creature Workshop, which will be another feast of cinema magic. Way to go, Cherbourg! We hope this inspires communities all over Australia to make and share their stories
http://www.youngfilmmakersfestivalqueensland.com/
They haven't written a full on set report like some of the previous visitors did (at least, not one that i've managed to find just yet) but they did for now include a photo of them at what i presume to be the Narrowhaven Town Square set, based on previous set report descriptions:
http://www.youngfilmmakersfestivalqueen ... narnia.jpg
For reference, here is the quote from one of the previous set reports, describing the set.
Peter Scott from ABC Brisbane wrote:I saw four sets. The first one was a medieval, Italian village with dirt streets and high, stone, castle-like walls. Construction workers were pulling it down as filming was finished in that set
The other potential point of interest in this story was this quote here:
The young filmmakers from Cherbourg, are now looking forward to their tour of the John Cox Creature Workshop, which will be another feast of cinema magic.
It doesn't necessarily imply it was in anyway related to the Narnia Set visit, but i checked it out anyway to see if they were doing any work on VDT. However, i couldn't find anything. They have done work on previous Walden Media projects (Nim's Island) but there was no solid Narnia connection to be found. I would presume anyway that all the creature effects work would be done by KNB anyway, but i'll be keeping an eye open.
http://www.johncox.net/