The Completed Work by Clough Hall Students

The animation presents the students ideas around sustainable development for their school and includes; updating the entrance/reception area, a general tidy up and fixing of anything that is broken, improved pedestrian access, alternative energy sources and innovative water use.

They have done a great job, have a look!

Workshop 9th March 2011

Well! We all had a great day - the students were brilliant and engaged with the themes around sustainable development really well. They came up with interesting ideas for sustainable improvement and began to translate these into animated scenes:

Animation expert Karen Sayle demonstrates how a zoetrope works.

An area of the school currently ready for some sustainable development.

 

An ideas spider diagram.

 

Some of the visuals for animation created by the students.

Lights, camera, action!

The completed animation by the Clough Hall students will be posted soon........

Clough Hall Technology School Wednesday 9th March 2011

We are looking forward to working with year 8 Arts Award students at Clough Hall tomorrow. We will be delivering a full day of workshops, learning about sustainability, generating ideas and using animation to present the ideas.

Haywood Engineering College - Final Animation!

Here is the finished work! 

Karen from BIGredstudio has put together this fantastic animation, compiled from all of the group animations created during the Haywood Engineering College sustainable schools workshops. 

Well done to all the students who worked really hard, what a great achievement!

Bringing the storyboards to life

Animations complete! The final storyboards were brought to life on Monday 7th February, during the final workshop at Haywood High School.

The creative regeneration solutions ranged from encasing the school within a geodesic dome, similar to the Eden Project (above image), to an on-site wind farm that would generate power for the school and surrounding neighbourhood. 

Great ideas! 

Well done to all the groups on their fantastic work - animations will be uploaded soon, so keep checking the blog for more news!

Set Design and Filming

On 27th January we worked with our ideas and loads different materials to create the sets and other visual elements for our animated scenes. We also started with some filming and will be continuing with this on 7th of February.......

Storyboarding

During the workshop on  24th January we discussed more about what a sustainable school could or would be like and identified topics to explore using animation. We then started story boarding our ideas about our chosen topic.

Follow on workshops

We are looking forward to workshops with students from Haywood Engineering College on 24th and 27th January.

During workshops the students will work with  architect John Bishop (PLACES), urban designer Hannah Barter (UVNS) and film animator Karen Sayle (Big Red Studio) to complete their animated film about how they can make their school more sustainable.

Animation from first workshop sessions at Haywood Engineering College

Sustainable Schools Project at Haywood Engineering College

On 29^th November 2010, year 8 pupils from Haywood Engineering College worked with film animation maker Karen Sayle, director of Big Red Studios in Burslem and artist Becky Huxley from The Cultural Sisters. 


During the workshop sessions the students explored and photographed the school buildings and considered ways in which it could be improved and made more sustainable and welcoming. 

Using some basic practical animation skills, with different materials, they then created some animated film scenes.

 

 

 

About the project...

Urban Vision North Staffordshire has funding and support from CABE to deliver a Sustainable Schools Project with 3 secondary schools in North Staffordshire. The project will creatively explore the sustainability of school buildings, grounds and communities.

Students and staff participate in workshops with an Architect, Artist, Urban Designer and Animated Filmmaker and through this series of inspirational workshops explore the themes around sustainability, enabling students to present their own thoughts and ideas using animation.