Cherry Tree Primary School Pollution Animation – Class 7

Matt has been working at the Cherry Tree Primary School & Speech and Language Centre in Colchester working with a group of young people with Speech and Language challenges.

The challenge was to create a stop frame animation which told a story about pollution. Matt worked with the class teacher and learners to talk about the effects of pollution before introducing the young people to video and animation technologies. The group did some research, drew up a storyboard and then produced the below animation, which was filmed in both 2D and 3D.

The group of learners had to practice their communication, co-ordination, collaboration and creative skills in order to produce the animation, which was entirely their own creative ideas. Big thanks to Janet Livingstone, class teacher, and Miss M for their brilliant approach to the project.

Kate Holland, Deputy Head Says:
February 12th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
This is just brilliant and the children are so proud of their work. Well done Matt some inspirational work! Anything is possible if you can inspire!

Harlow Creative Animation Workshops

Steph has been working with learners to make their own stop frame animations. Over two days people from all different ages, abilities, and backgrounds came to the centre in Harlow to learn about animation and create their own masterpieces.

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Wickford CLC Creative Music Making and Radio Play

Matt and Hal have been working at Wickford CLC (Community Learning Centre) a lot lately to help learners explore the potential of creative use of technology for learning. Together they have been running workshops in film, animation, music and radio. Today involved the production of Jingles and Radio plays for broadcast.

Here is a finished Radio Play, the script was written, sound effects added, and recorded by the learners entirely from scratch:

Some images from the event:

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Radio Training Student Union at City College Norwich

Matt has been working with the Student Union to train on how the RUGROOM Radio facility works. The facility was specified and is being incorporated into teaching and learning at the college by digitalcreativity.org team members. Our team train, explain and incorporate radio into teaching and learning.

Some images from the event including a video showing the radio facilities and students talking between songs:

Michael Jackson Tribute Show at The Bromfords School – Creative Radio Production

I (Max) was very lucky to be invited by the digitalcreativity.org team to work with them as part of my ‘Work Experience’ within my Year 10 school curriculm – and what a week to be working with them on!

From the 5th through to the 12th July, Hal and Matt have both been working incredibly hard with students of various ages at the Bromfords School – Wickford, Essex on Creative Radio Production. This was in preparation of leading a cross-media production based entirely on the rather topical entertainment superstar ‘Michael Jackson’ as a tribute to his life and work. The workshops the students took part in during the week, led up to a final showcase which was performed to various Year 6 induction groups from accompanying local primary schools.

The final production consisted of a wide variety of highly-talented performances incorporating modern and contemporary dance and vocal engagement which was led in a ‘radio-style’ format by student DJs with a helping hand from Matt and Hal.

The project was two weeks long, and involved Bromfords School, Creative Partnerships and Wickford CLC (Community Learning Centre). Over the two weeks Matt and Hal worked with the learners to master radio production and they are superb when working with young people.

Some images from the event:

Salhouse Primary School Animations – The Secret Door

Work began today at the Salhouse Primary School to create the ‘Secret Door’ animations. Each group were taught the basics of animation and left to let their imaginations run wild as they created their project animations.

Some images from the day:

Sunnymede County Junior School Animations

Hal and Matt have spent the past two days at Sunnymede County Junior School running clay stop frame animation sessions. The young people at this school are really creative and are really proud of their achievements.

Some images from the two days:

Rugroom learners film Asperger’s Conference

Learners with Asperger’s Syndrome worked with the digitalcreativity.org team to film a conference about Asperger’s. The learners learned camera technique, framing and how to get great sound. The next part of the project will be to work with the learners to edit the material for internal viewing.

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Harrowden Middle School Radio Show

Today was a great night for celebrations at Harrowden Middle School. For the past ten weeks Hal MacLean and Matthew Eaves from digitalcreativity.org have been working in conjunction with Year 8 Learners and Staff to learn all about radio and prepare a radio show for a live audience. The show incuded presenting, music, radio plays and interviews and lasted for half an hour.

The project was funded in association with Creative Partnerships.

The evening presentation to parents, families, the community and others at the school was excellent.

Some images from the event:

Here are some images from the ten weeks of days creating production:

Salhouse Primary School Filming

Shelley and Matt have been spending time with Salhouse Primary School (Salhouse, Norwich) to produce films for a Creative Partnerships project they have been involved in. The learners have learned about television production, and begun to shoot their own film about “The Secret Door”.

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