Sunday 11th March was again a fantastic session. We looked at Special Effects in silent movies and saw some examples of these in films like Winsor McCay's 'Gertie the Dinosaur', George Melies and Felix the Cat.
As well as looking at animation we also looked at stop time. We demonstrated this by filming a scenario: a princess kisses a frog which turns into a prince. We filmed the princess kissing the frog and then took the frog away and replaced it with the prince. Therefore when we edited the piece it looked like the frog turned into a prince. We then added the animation part. We took stills of each drawing of the puff of smoke getting bigger. When all the stills are put together at speed the drawings come alive and the puff of smoke is animated. We added the puff of smoke inbetween the frog changing to a prince to show how the special effects work.
After this demonstration we split into groups to produce pieces of stop time and animation special effects. Everyone worked well and used their creativity to produce some great pieces.
Don't forget next week is at the slightly earlier time of 12pm - 5pm, as we're making a film in a day! So spread the word and bring along more friends - the more the merrier! ....oh and don't forget we really need your help in finding old stories to use as starting points for film ideas.
See you ALL on Sunday!
Jo x
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