This week we have continued with our animation projects in all our classes except Gavin's, in which we did a practice reading assessment, as we will be doing the real one next week. We also looked at the Micheal Jackson Black or White video (again!!), in preparation for our assessment the week we come back from the Xmas holidays.

Week Ending Friday 4th December

On Tuesday with John we started constructing our sets, using foamboard, wallpaper, coloured paper and started to make our props, using plasticine to cover dolls house settees and tables, and we also started to make our models out of plasticine. This continued into Angies class in the afternoon, where we continued with our our models.

These are the four figures we made, I made the man second from the right, and I also helped make the blue footballer figure. To make them we used zinc wire and polymorph beads to construct an wire armature, then used different coloured plasticene to cover the wire frame.  This allowed the figures to be moved for the animation, although we found after a while of using them the plasticene melted and the wire started poking through in places.  The feet were also a problem, after being moved and squashed a thousand times they did not resemble feet, and did not keep the figure standing.

 

 

On Thursday in Gavins class we did our presentations, and did a small project on narrative, involving putting a Pingu cartoon into the right order. On Friday in Ewans class we continued with our projects, although I was off college and missed it.