I headed to the Thames Festival this weekend and came across an interesting project run by The Tate called 'The Tate Movie Project', which encourages 5-13 year old kids to contribute their ideas to an animated movie. Under a large marquee, a professional animator taught children how to mould plastercine figures into different poses, taking a screen grab of each pose, and then editing the sequences together into a full animation. There were a lot of kids watching, but also plenty of adults, who were equally fascianted by how animation works.
The Tate Movie project encourages children to create every aspect of the final film, from the hand-drawn characters and plot twists, costumes and comic sound effects. The website is a virtual film studio that forms the hub of the Tate Movie Project online community. Children can upload their pictures and ideas as well as voting on those already on the site
The Tate and Aardman Animations are running hundreds of similar production workshops across the UK from the Tate Movie Truck, a state of the art mobile learning space where children explore art and animation as well as generate ideas and drawings for the film. Galleries nationwide will also be hosting workshop. You can find out if there’s a workshop near you by looking on the site.
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