The showcase

Wendy and I had our last trip to Tilbury Town to help the filmmakers to finish their animations and do a little bit of editing.   We also squeezed in a screening of the finished works with a special guest Iluska, from Creative Partnerships.  The group still have a little bit of work to do on their soundtracks.  The films were great, with some very informative and imaginative narrative themes and the students were so fast to pick up the technology.  I'm sure there will be more animating at Gateway.  I hope so.

Animation Day.

The class had a very productive day animating and gathering sounds for their stories.

Here are the animated sequences so far. Next we will be reviewing the footage and editing.

Some links to good animated documentary films

Arthur Lipsetts film Very Nice Very Nice  from 1961.  This film was made 50 years ago, but it seems very current.  It is made from still frames that were rejected by other filmmakers.  Do you think the message of the film is still true today?
A is for Autism by Tim Webb from 1992.  The film gives a very good impression of the life of a person living with autism through clever use of both the images and the sound.
I met the Walrus by Josh Raskin from 2009.  Based on a recording of John Lennon from 1969.  The unaltered recording provides the structure for the animated documentary.

Storyboards and Artwork

The students had been working hard on their stories and storyboards with the help of Lucy and Phil from Pixelwork.  Yesterday I went in to help them create the artwork so that they'll be ready to animate next week with Wendy.

The animation day - the set up

Wednesday 2nd March part 1

Here are the animations made using cutout paper puppets:

Wednesday 2nd March

Here are some of the very good Coalhouse fort inspired animations from today, we didn't get the chance to try rotoscoping this time, here are the drawn animations: