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Artists Lizzy Hobbs and Emily Tracy worked with J3 in Janurary and February 2011. We were awarded funding from First Light to make an experimental film based on archive footage from the BFI. We made a record of our adventures here. The blog is still live and we will post about the finished film's progress, and opportunities for young animators

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Animation in the pottery shed

Here we are on our last session today animating at top speed.  We had a spare camera and computer so we captured some timelapse footage with it, we took one frame every five seconds.  You can see I didn't have time to drink my tea.

Installation

There was a lot of excitement working with Emily planning the projection and exhibition of the film.  The group had some excellent ideas and the resourceful Kyla ran away with the idea of merchandising germ related products.  We will be showing the film in the pottery shed on parent's evening - 31st March.




Editing

Inspired by Jay's beatbox performance two weeks ago, we showed the class Lasse Gjertsen's brilliant film Hyperactive to describe the process of editing.  Guido, Sinead and Aaron had a go cutting some of the different sounds to picture using Final Cut Pro.  They picked it up in about two minutes.


Germinator

Today was our last session working on the animation and J3 have been very busy.  At the beginning of the day we voted for Beth's great title 'Germinator'.  Tyrese's 'DJ Germs' was extremely popular but after a discussion we realised that the title might be misleading.  Posters were made in the morning using collage, you will be able to see them up around the school nearer the time of the film's premiere on the 31st March, but here is a sneak preview: