Ford Park Cemetery was the back drop for filming for Plymouth university arts student Isla Ostler’s project.

Isla (Pictured right), who is studying Performing and Production Arts, chose the cemetery as the setting for her film which featured two characters - one portraying a terminally ill person (played by Erin Greehough) who is having a conversation with the other representing death (Jason Williams). 

The main message of her film was that the simplicity of life is beautiful and that you don’t need to have achieved something immense for your life to be worthwhile.

Trustee Wendy Coulton says: “As a funeral celebrant I was heartened by the message of Isla’s film. I have yet to conduct a service honouring a life which rated material possessions or social status above how someone made us feel. It is the little things which count and stay with us in our memories.

“It was a pleasure for us to assist Isla with her arts project.

I was particularly impressed when filming activity, which was taking place at a memorial bench, was paused when some visitors arrived to pay their respects in the vicinity of that bench.  Isla and her colleagues quietly stepped back and moved away from that part of the cemetery to give the visitors privacy.

We wish Isla the very best with her studies and future.”