Little Red Riding Hood in the Wood, with I7

Emily and I made puppets to animate in the morning and in the afternoon the whole class had a tiny shot at animating under our rostrum cameras.  As you can see, she had more than just the wolf to contend with on her journey, there's a monkey, a cobra, a large gogo, a rocket, a ninja and a vampire too.

What a funny dream

Little Red Riding Hood (with the Cobra and the Gogo)

Emily and I went into I7 this week to do a spot of drawing, puppet making and animation on the theme of Red Riding Hood.  Here are the brilliant drawings that they made on the theme.  Some of them made with eyes shut, or with their wrong hands.

Co-operative Film Festival in Bradford

A small group of 4 Gayhurst pupils represented the J3 Filmmakers on a day trip to the Co-operative Film Festival in Bradford where the J3 film Germinator was showing in the cinema in The National Media Museum.  It was a really brilliant day which culminated in a proud moment on the stage, as you can see in the bottom photograph.

(We also watched a very old episode of Dr Who in TV Heaven, which is why Tom Baker is amongst the photographs.)

National Portrait Gallery

Lizzy is running flick book workshops at the National Portrait Gallery on Monday 15th August for over 5's with their families.  They are free, but you would need to get a ticket. They are 90 minutes long, and they are at 11.30 and repeated at 2.30pm.  For more information please go here.

The film Germinator is showing on the First Light website.  Click here to see it, you can also post some comments if you like.

The Germs are Spreading!

Germinator has been selected to be shown at The Co-operative Film Festival 2011 at the National Media Museum in Bradford.  The Film will be shown at the 2 day festival on the 7th October with about 100 other films by young people under 19 years old.  It's the film's first big success, we hope there will be many more.

The Laburnum Boat Club

Lizzy has made a little film with the Laburnum Boat Club which will have it's premiere on The Floating Cinema on tuesday at the Shoreditch Festival.  Click here for the festival link, it would be great if you could come along.

The screening

By the end of Wednesday we had completed the transformation.  Thank you to Jeff for managing to get the blog working locally and thank you to May for lending us her popcorn maker.  Sometimes it was a rival attraction!  We were also grateful to Hugh and Joanne for helping to get the film show extended to Friday. The film was projected on a loop from midday on thursday until 8pm, and again for the whole of Friday so that each class could come and see it.  That was a lot of visitors!  I bet Emily has got some good photos to add, but here are a few for now...

WELL DONE J3!

The transformation

One of Emily's specialities is transforming spaces to make them special.  Even though the pottery shed is quite special already, it needed a lot of work on Wednesday to make it into the Gayhurst Cinema.  Here is Marcus trying to drill through the concrete ceiling to put up the screen.

Our germ related merchandise

We made rubber stamps from some of the lovely germ drawings and used them to print t shirt's that the children could wear at the screening.  We also printed some hankerchiefs to sell for £2.  We sold every single one.  All the proceeds will go towards a zoetrope for the school.  We hope to keep the animation bug alive!

Germs germs get on your nerves

Here is a brilliant rap inspired by the project, written by James.

Germs germs get on your nerves,
they go in your mouth and come out your nose and shoot out your hair like a water spout,
germs germs are no good for nothing except for the good germs that at least do something,
they fight the bad germs every day and wait for victory to come their way,
germs germs get on your nerves,
they go in your mouth and come out your nose they wriggle about in your belly all day and spread diseases and say 'oh yeah remix',
germs germs the good germs win they have a party at midnight jim,
they eat alot and burp alot and then play splat all night yer!