ASPIRING teenage filmmaker has made his mark this month with a video which could be seen by more than 70,000 thousand staff and volunteers at the UK’s largest conservation charity.

Cirencester Deer Park School student, Henry Blackaller, has aced his week’s work experience at the National Trust’s headquarters, in Swindon, successfully directing, filming and editing his own staff information video.

The three-minute film, which includes computer animation, will tell the National Trust’s volunteers and staff members about a new system to reduce the charity’s environmental footprint.

For the video the year 11 pupil from Cirencester interviewed staff at the Dudmaston Estate, in Shropshire, to find out what they were doing to help achieve the Trust’s energy reduction target of 20 per cent by 2020.

Henry, 15, said: “I’d love to make and direct big budget films when I leave school, so it was fantastic to get the chance to make this video for such a well known charity.

“I had a lot of fun interviewing people and filming at Dudmaston. It was quite difficult to edit it all down to three minutes in the end, but now I’m really looking forward to everyone seeing it – I hope they like it.”

* A link to Henry’s video will soon be appearing in the National Trust’s Big Issues website section. Find out more at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/what-we-do/big-issues/energy-and-climate-change/