Ultralab friend Patrick Gordon and pupils from Saffron Walden County High School attended Ultralab today to show off their creative projects completed during their summer break in August.
Before the summer the group spent the day at Ultralab learning how to make films, animations and music. We concentrated on a new application called ‘Comic Life’ incorporating that programme into the actual summer challenge. The young people had to make a nine window comic over the summer, but the comic windows had to be significantly different from a paper comic, ie: interactive. They could use a series of stills, animation of film throughout their work.
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The work, as ever is outstanding. What is more special is that the young people will be making their own DVD production, rather than Ultralab, who have always made the productions in the past. The young people spent the day with Ultralab learning how to make a DVD, using iDVD from Apple. The completed projects will then be shown in a cinema in Cambridge.
Did you see us on BBC Blast this morning on BBC 2?
BBC Blast - 4 November 2004: 
An audience of three hundred attended the 4th annual Summer School creativity celebration at the Victoria & Albert museum in London. The event, which showcases the movies by the children is projected in the V&A’s prestigious lecture theatre, which they then defend from questions from the audience was an amazing experience, as ever, for all involved.
The event, run in conjunction with SEEVEAZ was broadcast internationally over the Internet. Neil Boughen, technician at the event and his team put on exceptional technical performance made perfect by the input, interaction and positive comments from the audience.
The Anglia Polytechnic University Summer School has officially started this week working with young people who’s parents have never been to University in an attempt to engage those who would not usually choose University as part of their future.
