Framed

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Frank was asked by the Fleming Estate to write the official sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2012. Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an accomplished, successful and award-winning author and screenwriter. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2004. This story is so great. It's about the small English town of Manod where a little service station owned and operated by Dylan and his family is struggling to survive. Then the entire art collection from the British Museum comes to be stored in Manod Mountain and things get interesting. Different townspeople are touched and inspired by different works of art and things start to change in Manod.

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So that was how it started. I came and looked at pictures and thought 'What would I like?', which one suggested a story to me. And then myself and my son, we went to Manod, we went to Blaenau Ffestiniog, which is the real town that Manod is based on and we just looked around and thought well, what pictures connect with this town? The Leonardo da Vinci painting was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle and I've always thought: Wow, that's amazing that somebody stole this hugely valuable work of art and the idea that these little, tiny objects can be worth hundreds of millions of pounds, that's really interesting.

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TV - Original Drama Serial (with Paul Abbott, Martin Allen, Ken Blakeson, Tom Elliott, Barry Hill, Stephen Mallatratt, Julian Roach, Adele Rose, Patrea Smallacombe, John Stevenson, Peter Whalley, Mark Wadlow and Phil Woods) Lacey, Josh (15 October 2011). "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce – review". The Guardian. London.

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Tracy McVeigh and Owen Gibson (28 July 2012). "London 2012: Danny Boyle thrills audiences with inventive Olympics opening ceremony". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 July 2012. Frank is also a successful writer of film scripts and was the official scriptwriter for the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, playing an important role devising the ceremony with Danny Boyle. He is also a judge for the BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition. You can read a great interview with Frank and one of his fellow judge, Francesca Simon here! Interviewer: You write stories for film and television as well as books. Artists tell stories in one painting. How are they different?

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Smyth, Chris (2018). "Universally challenged: Reading alumni team gets zero". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 11 January 2018. They've done it by choosing an important moment in the story so you can figure out what has just happened or guess what's going to happen next. Or the stories are full of symbols that tell you who somebody is or costumes and emblems and allegories so that you can work out what the story is – there's like a code in each picture. I love a story where you can't put a finger on who the best character is. Is it the two old ladies who live halfway up the mountain? One is blind and the other doesn't know how to drive. So the blind one drives and the other one steers. Or is it Dylan's Dad who can fix anything - even people? Nice Tom (formerly Daft Tom) who is obsessed with the Ninja Turtles? Dylan's little sister Minnie who loves bandits and reading about the guy who stole the Mona Lisa? I can't decide. I loved them all. You've probably never heard of Vincenzo Perugia..." Dylan tells us that he stole the Mona Lisa and it was the perfect crime. "He didn't try to sell it. He didn't steal any other paintings. He didn't want to be famous or rich. He just wanted the Mona Lisa. And that's where he went right. That's why it was the perfect crime. Because he didn't want anything else. And that's where we went wrong. We wanted something." I hope a movie of FRAMED is planned.

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Cottrell-Boyce was the writer [5] [22] [23] of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, whose storyline he based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. [21] He collaborated with director Danny Boyle and other members of the creative team, including designer Mark Tildesley, [22] in the development of the story and themes, and wrote "short documents that told the story of each segment" [24] to provide context for choreographers, builders and other participants. He also wrote the brochure, [22] [24] the stadium announcements [22] and the media guide for presenter Huw Edwards. [5] [24] So, as soon as I thought of this story, I thought well I've got to go to the National Gallery and I want to know everything about the gallery, not just the pictures. So I wrote to somebody here at the gallery and they were just incredibly kind and welcoming. So my first proper trip to the gallery, I didn't come through the main door, I was taken to the side door and pressed the bell and it felt really special. Manod develops an interest in art and Lester develops an interest in Manod, in the form of the lovely Angharad, the local school teacher. Through the transformative power of art, Manod starts to transform itself, beginning with the service station, where Mam and the children revive the flagging fortunes of the petrol station by broadening the services they offer into catering and a coffee bar.

a b c Cottrell Boyce, Frank (28 July 2012). "An Interview with Frank Cottrell Boyce". Today (Interview). Interviewed by John Humphrys. Boyce's lightness of touch is a delight. One of the many strands of this multilayered book is the redemptive power of art. Blinded by Dylan's apparent love of art, Lester fails to see what a genuine effect it has on those around him, including Daft Tom (who helps out at the garage). It inspires window displays, colourful umbrella parades - don't ask - and so much more. Cottrell-Boyce has won two major British awards for children's books, the 2004 Carnegie Medal for Millions, which originated as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, which was commissioned by a charity. [3] [4] Personal life [ edit ] a b c "A life in writing: Frank Cottrell Boyce". Susanna Rustin. The Guardian 26 October 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-28.

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And then the other thing is that I have always known the story that, during the Second World War, all these paintings from the National Gallery were taken away because they were worried that the Germans would bomb the gallery or that people would steal the paintings and they were hidden away in this small town in Wales. And the idea that this small, very poor town, had billions of pounds worth of these amazingly beautiful pictures hidden away – that always seemed like a great story to me. Children´s and Young Adult Program – internationales literaturfestival berlin" . Retrieved 11 September 2016. I love the voice and thought processes of Dylan. He is a well-developed character. He and the entire town are greatly affected when paintings from the National Gallery are transferred to their old mountain quarry where the works will be stored to protect them during some bad flooding in London. Dylan realizes that when people see the paintings, the paintings act as a mutagen on the viewers, changing their lives for the better. (He and his friends know all about mutagens because of The Turtles.)Cottrell-Boyce is an advocate for reading aloud and patron of The Reader Organisation. a charity that works through volunteers to bring literature to everyone, through reading aloud in prisons, care homes and other community spaces. [30] Novels [ edit ] Frank Cottrell Boyce: As a book writer you get to write a story in words but when you are making a film you tell a story in pictures. I think one of the reasons I was really drawn to this story is that, if you tell a picture in a film, you get a lot of pictures to tell the story – you get 25 pictures per second. So in a film that is 25 x 60 per minute x 90 for the film, so you have do the maths, but it's a lot of pictures. This is one of the most famous football matches ever, going from 3-0 down to three all. And I had missed it all, I had missed all three goals and my son, Benedict, who was about nine at the time, he'd drawn me pictures of the goals that I'd missed. Which is one of the most beautiful things that's ever happened to me, really touching. And they were good drawings. And I thought that's one thing that art is for, it's to save something from time. Time takes everything away, you've missed the goal, it's gone. And art saves it for you and lets it stay in your mind.