IT WAS standing room only at Rose Hill Primary School as more than 150 people packed out the hall for the premiere of Rose Hill TV.

The film was shown for the first time six months after the first shoot took place and was hailed as a huge success by the estate’s community worker Fran Gardner.

Plans to show it on a big screen outside the school in The Oval, Rose Hill, were scuppered by horrendous weather last Friday.

But the show went on inside the school and dozens of people volunteered to ride the static dynamo bikes that provided all the event’s electricity.

Ms Gardner said: “We were really pleased with how many people turned out.

“We had a good crowd and it had a real multi-cultural feel to it. I was fearful that people would not want to cycle, particularly into the later part of the evening, but in fact we could not get people off the bikes.

“We had volunteers who came along having read the piece in the Oxford Mail appealing for people to get involved.

Oxford City Council sent a team and there were about 40 cyclists in total.

“The film went down really well.” Featuring hundreds of children from Rose Hill, it was filmed to look like a TV being switched between various channels.

There was a Come Dine With Us channel that saw the children cook and perform, a sports channel that saw them show off football skills and included a visit to Oxford City FC and a soap channel with three separate scenes, including a dramatic car crash.

The other channels included Bollywood dancing, an art channel and a wildlife channel.

Ms Gardner said the children, who wrote the scripts themselves as well as performing, had learned a range of new skills as a result.

The team behind Rose Hill TV has already begun to plan what will come next.

Ms Gardner said: “We are now thinking, ‘oh my goodness, what on earth do we do to follow Rose Hill TV?’ because it is a big act to follow.

“We learned from it that the children love to sing and dance and act.

“Maybe we will start to develop more dance, more workshops, more drama for them.

“It was a very happy community evening which was what we wanted.”

Film-maker Roly Carline, 32, from Cowley, said: “It was a really good project.

“ The group spent six months on it, which gave them lots of time to pick up new skills with projects and performances.”