But that is what happened to 28 year 11 pupils from Alderman Peel High School in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
The project began when Statkraft, Norway’s leading energy company, asked the school to produce a series of one-minute videos celebrating the local environment.
Statkraft sponsored the recent Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye exhibition at Tate Modern and the company was keen for pupils to take inspiration from the Norwegian artist’s experimental video techniques.
The youngsters worked with leading UK film-maker Ivana Bobic, who visited the school twice to talk about Munch’s work and her own films. The pupils were then divided into groups, given flip video cameras and asked to shoot five short segments of high-quality film. Shots ranged from the wild Norfolk coast and sky to skateboards and fruit machines.
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