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BBC Wales 2W Christmas Idents by Six-Year-Olds from Caerleon Infant School

2006-11-16

The 14th, 15th, and 16th of November now stand out as some of the best days in my career so far. We've worked long and hard to pursue governments, broadcasters, and educational institutions to promote the fact that children are very creative when united with the power of enabling technology.

The 14th, 15th, and 16th of November now stand out as some of the best days in my career so far. We’ve worked long and hard to pursue governments, broadcasters, and educational institutions to promote the fact that children are very creative when united with the power of enabling technologies. BBC Wales initiated a pilot project to find out what idents could look like if children created idents themselves, using stop-frame clay animation. I spent last Wednesday (8 November) at BBC Broadcasting House in Cardiff working with various team members from 2W to work out how the technology being used could be enabled for 16:9 (widescreen) viewing. To the right is how the ident will be placed on the work created by the children. We have decided to use Apple computers running iStopMotion animation software and Sony XM1 camera technology. All of the work will be created in widescreen; our experiment worked. It has been decided that the background the children will animate in front of will be yellow, music will also be added in post-production. So how would a six-year-old make an ident anyway? Geraint Lang from the team and I spent three enjoyable days at Caerleon Infant School near Newport, W…

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