Students create animations
A group of 27 students from Brisbane Water Secondary College Umina Campus enjoyed a Digital Animation Workshop recently, creating short animated films using clay.
Visual design students from Years 7 to 9 used eight laptops, video cameras, stages and mountains of colourful clay with the help of Digi-Ed, a Sydney digital animation company.
Visual arts teacher Ms Tullia Price said the students had a wonderful and unique experience at the workshop.
"The process took the entire school day starting out with storyboarding, building their own clay characters and designing and drawing a series of backdrops," Ms Price said.
"Each group filmed their one-minute animations, made up of about 12 still camera shots per second.
"Hundreds of photos made up their final film.
"After lunch the students edited their films, added sound tracks and sound effects, titles and credits.
"The crazy adventures of ice creams, diving boards, transforming dogs, true love and bus catastrophes made up only some of the adventurous narratives.
"Our groups of creative movie makers had films of their own to take home and a much greater appreciation of the animated film industry."
Newsletter, 30 Sep 2009
Tullia Price, BWSC Umina Campus