Gun Fun

"Every day, eight American children are killed by guns."

Children can be easily affected by their environment, their friends, and especially their parents. They learn by watching people interact with the world and take it as a model of their behavior. Our video reflects how powerful a gun or other violence could be to change a child’s life, even if they don’t witness the actual violence.

Blake storyboard

Moving image poem

Script: The clip will be about a child's ideals of what she believes to be peace within her environment.

This is a poem written by my friends daughter. She is 7 years old and wrote this poem in response to a class assignment titled: How to create change in your environment. She wrote about peace and her hopes for the world she lives in in poem form. Her older sister will be playing a violin tune that she had created and I will use art to create images that will bring the poem to life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4xMaVmk1Y

RachelSt.Pierre Storyboad

Script

My project is entitled “Dragon Song”.  The animation is based on a poem written by the 11 year old girl that I nanny for.  The poem is inspired by the influence I have had on her as a mentor and the impact she has had on me as a young, innovative girl.  The main theme of the poem focuses on the infinite power and potential of freethinking passionate of young women.  I will be using lots of paper throughout the animation in cutout form, origami and paper dolls.  

Production Plan

I will shooting this film on a Cannon rebel camera and using a desk lamp for fill lighting.  I am using props such as origami, paper cutouts (hearts, text and backgrounds) and these gorgeous paper dolls that I purchased on Etsy. (Examples Shown Below)  I will be using the SAM animation studio and attaching my camera to a USB cord. I prefer to use the SAM software because I love the onion skin it provides to help with continuity.  Since I am shooting more than one “scene” I will be uploading all the footage onto iMovie and doing the final edit on there.  

URL Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06dAqSFn1lk