Mallee Health youth workshop 2 - 2005 June - Pinnaroo SA
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project was invited to run a digital media workshop with Primary School students at the Mallee Health Service Inc in Pinnaroo, as part of a long term regional engagement project.
OUTCOMES: The youth worked with green screen and compositing software to realize their vision of a plastic cup 3-D animation. What started as a challenging project, as most of the participants where dropped off by their parents as a kind of Sunday day care, turned into a creative and unique project.
The somewhat involuntarily participating youth had difficulties to engage in the concepts of film making, as they wanted to create animations and were not interested in documentary making. And as some of them were hellbent on destroying all plastic cups within reach, we challenged the group to make a film about plastic cups – Cup Man was born! The team took off, produced a story within a short time, storyboarded it and created their own animation set, using the blue sky as a matte for their blue-screen color compositing. It was fabulous to see the group transform into a team within hours and make one of the most inventive Hero Project films to date.
Partners
Arts SA
Country Arts SA
Mallee Health Service Inc