Whitegrove Primary School Animation Project
During March and April 2005, 12 children from Whitegrove Primary School attended an after-school digital animation project in the DMC.
The pupils worked with artist, Janet Cannon to create a series of animated graphic images, suitable for displaying on a web page.
"I enjoyed the progression from lines to pictures and from black and white to colour. We had more time to explore our ideas than at school." Anna.
The students used graphics tablets to draw their images directly into the graphics application, Adobe Image Ready.
Click the link below to view the project in a new browser window:
Whitegrove School Digital Animation
Brakenhale School Project
During March and April 2004, we hosted a multi-media project with 10 pupils from Brakenhale School. The students worked with Martin Franklin for 5 sessions, to create a set of interactive sound and animation pieces controlled by the computer mouse. The results ranged from sci-fi spacescapes to words that play echoing vocals.
As part of the Music curriculum for the student group, they have attained a familiarity with various aspects of Digital Audio, editing and composing sets of sound for interactive animation.
They also developed their ability to visualise and plan
their projects through to completion. At the end of the project they presented
their work to an audience of parents and teachers, playing together in
two improvised pieces, combining the sounds of all of the pieces.
You can download the final project with all the pieces to play on your
computer.
PC users will need Winzip to extract the files to your computer.
Download Project (3.5mb) :
Mac OSX
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Wired Words
Our New Media for Writers course with
Jane Draycott in November opened up a wealth of possibilites for the course
participants, with the introduction of audio and text collaging techniques.
Tonia Maddison was one of the course participants, we are featuring the
movie of her piece 'The River' here.
"Much of my work is based on the
combination of image and text. The 'Wired Words' course provided
an opportunity to exploit this interest in a multi-media setting.
The course demonstrated how digital technology can be used as a stimulus
to creativity - in this instance allowing me to add sound to my 'palette'"
To watch the movie, click the link
below:
The
River
(QuickTime movie 8.6mb)