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Two young people are dressed in cowboy/western-style clothing for a photoshoot as part of a play they were creating. The young person on the left is smiling with their arms slightly raised, the young person on the right looks intensely at the camera with arms folded.
22 August 2025

Boomtown 2025

Discover how young changemakers in Rushmoor created an immersive window installation for Boomtown Festival

In collaboration with the Army Welfare Service and Boomtown, young changemakers in Rushmoor created three immersive window displays for Boomtown’s Copperwood district, transforming a fictional film studio into a captivating visual story. 

The group began the project by exploring ideas for the window displays and decided to use them to portray a three-act story based on a fictional film, Massacre by Moonlight. The windows depict the films promotion, production, and rise to fame before exploring the scandals surrounding Von Vanderhaus Studios. The narrative then takes viewers on a dramatic journey through underhand operations, celebrity controversy, a stuntman’s injury, mass murder, and even a vampire along the way. 

The project also included a professional photoshoot, where the changemakers stepped into the roles of the characters they had created, complete with costumes and professional make-up. 

  • A young person dressed in vintage clothing as part of a photoshoot for a play they were creating. They are wearing a bowler had and tweed jacket. They have their hands raised in excitement and mouth open as if they are shouting.
  • A group of young people dressed as characters in a play are having their photograph taken by another young person with a vintage camera. The image is in black and white to fit the theme of the play.
Two young people are exploring the three-piece window installation that they have just created at Boomtown Festival. They are staring into the windows looking at pieces of script, photos, and newspaper headlines.

A key part of the process involved working with writer Felix Bill, who supported the young people in developing the story and creating written content for the windows to help to bring their fictional world to life. One young person, Mia, worked closely with Felix to further develop her writing skills. Inspired by the project, she produced 14 original pieces of writing that explored the story from different perspectives of the characters and in different forms such as newspaper articles, letters, scripts, and police reports. 

See how they brought their vision to life in the film below.

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