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WEEK of JANUARY 19, 2004 |
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“Kindness Works” (So Does Hard Work and Collaboration) The fall 7th and 8th grade BFS animation class recently completed a semester-long cel-animation project that resulted in a public service announcement, “Kindness Works.” The 30-second PSA is a delightful version of “Daniel in the Lion’s Den,” starring a dinosaur in the lion’s role. But the real star is the collaborative, creative work of the students. The animation consists of nearly 1,000 drawings. “For each second in the final video, there can be up to six layers of 10 or more hand-drawn images,” explains Andy Cohen, media/video production teacher. The elaborate production steps that the students took included storyboarding concepts, drawing cells, pencil-testing scenes for motion, making adjustments to timing and layering of characters and scenery, scanning and painting the images, exporting the scenes, editing scenes, and adding music, graphics, and sound effects. The students want their work to be considered for entry in this year’s Bridge Film Festival, in the new public service announcement category. Andy Cohen has a further ambition: “I hope to get this PSA on television,” he says. “This is the most ambitious and complex cel-animation ever attempted at BFS,” Cohen adds. “The class worked extremely well together—synchronizing the visual elements, always looking to see what needed to be done next, experimenting with the medium, and having a lots fun, too.” Bravo to the students: Kevin Fertig, Natalie Grybauskas, Ryan Ladouceur, Benjamin Lipton, John Rodgers, Eli Sidman,David Villalba, and Nicholas Wheatley-Schaller.
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