Category: The Filmmakers


Everybody is really busy, despite the glorious summer weather. Moving images have been  edited to match the audio tracks we laid down weeks ago. We now know what makes us scared officially! Chickens! Spiders! Guns! Zombies!  The Dark! The list goes on. We need a few bits of original music to slot in – did you know occasional workshop mentor Ainslie has has some serious musical credentials (as well as have a top 10 single?

We now have official titles for the two films: Nightmares from Hell – these are the things which give us the heeby jeebies. We don’t even know why some of the time. Thomas Tells Tales is the best way we could come up with to focus on some real concerns. We could have got really dark, but that was going to be too owrrying for some of our filmmakers, so we went for the most empowering option – humour. There’s a park near to the school, which has had its once-excellent play structure burned to bits over a serious of attacks. It really bothers everyone who lives nearby and uses the park.

How people deliberately make  themselves look bother a lot of people in and around the school – we tried to capture that too – but again we sent down the route of exaggeration and humour. With a  mix of live action and animation, there are hundreds of shots here (and in the other movie too). We’re all happy to put our names to them!

Films taking shape

Last week we split into our two groups, and started working on the two film ideas.

Storyboarding

Storyboarding options

The idea is to make two very different movies, with different styles of animation, plus some live action!

The group mentored by Madevi worked on storyboarding, which expanded  on the bare bones of the script which had been worked through the previous week.

monsters ...

This was quite an intense session, between the storyboarding and discussion points, but everyone worked very hard. The great things was that we got enough ideas to trial some live action ideas on film, with Ross taking the director’s role. Thomas took the lead role initially, and then Daniel provided the lead character for the final scenes.

The second group worked on audio for their movie, with groups of two discussing what frightened them … spiders and other long legged creepie crawlies seem to be responsible for many daytime and  night time fears. What we’ll do is marry our audio clips with animation.

What we’ve been working on is the beginning of the animatics, so we can finalise just what’ll be going on in the movies … it’s all very exciting!

The Groups

The Groups:

The two groups are:

Group 1 – led by Madevi

Salma Ahmad
Thomas Aitken
Emma Bryden
Millie Cook
Mairi Espie
Kevin Jeffrey
Lotte Latimer
Nellie Little
Ross MacMillan
Alison Manley
Bea Riemersma
Daniel Rogerson
Rochelle Ross
Tara Russell
Hannah Strang
Jelena Yendale

Group 2 – led by Rob

Yousseff Abu Helewa
Philip Aitken
Joanne Boyle
Hannah Cameron
Alex Dinwoodie
Jem Grant
Joe Hathaway
Sophie Kerr
Joseph Mayer
Dan Quale
Ryan Quinn
James Rainey
Sam Reid
Charlotte Roulston
Calvin Singh


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