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British Youth Council Conference 2008 - Animation Sessions

2008-08-15

It was great to be invited by the British Youth Council to Nottingham to run an hour-long animation session with the young people involved in the 2008 Conference. Young people from all over the UK were involved, and my session involved 30 participants. With only an hour...

It was great to be invited by the British Youth Council to Nottingham to run an hour-long animation session with the young people involved in the 2008 Conference. Young people from all over the UK were involved in the conference, and my session involved 30 participants. With only an hour in total for the workshop, we had to work very fast. None of the young people had previously done stop-frame animation, so after a quick introduction to iStopMotion, they were away. Each second of the animations is made up of 12 images. The groups had to improvise on lighting, scenery, and storyline. The groups had to quickly manage themselves into roles for the animation, communicating, collaborating, and working to complete the challenge against the clock. Forty minutes later, we moved over to GarageBand, and the five groups were making music for the animation. The groups then explored the software and put together short music tracks to complement their animations before they were uploaded to YouTube. Here are the finished products produced by the five groups in an hour flat… Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Completed work stored on YouTube.com Some images from the event:

Topics: Systems & software

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