Waitati School pupil Ruby Harris tried her best to sound like a demanding, tantrum-throwing actress during shooting part of a short film in Dunedin yesterday.
But in reality, she was having too much fun to act like a Hollywood starlet.
"We've learnt heaps. We've had to learn to write scripts, learn lines, learn how to act, record sound and edit."
She was one of about a dozen pupils from Waitati School involved in the making of a short film titled Toxic.
The pupils shot the final scenes for the movie at Ross Creek yesterday, and hoped the final edits would be completed in time for its screening at Hoyts in Dunedin next Wednesday.
Principal Heidi Hayward said the film was about a group of children who find dead fish and scum in their local stream.
"So they investigate what is causing it, and they find it is caused by the person they least expected."
Waitati School's film would not be the only one to screen at Hoyts, she said.
Pupils at Macandrew Intermediate had also created a short film titled Cursed, and the movies would be screened as a double bill.
