Cobblers Study Centre

As part of a seven week in school animation program at Elizabeth Woodville School, the students were given the task of creating a group animation along a social theme. After brainstorming, storyboarding, sculpting and building the models the group animated over three one hour sessions creating a short ‘trippy’ animation called ‘Don’t Do Drugs’, which can be seen below. In what little time the students had, they managed to accomplish a great deal and all those involved should take pride in what they managed to accomplish.
DVD’s of all the students work will soon be arriving back at the school and if you would like to see any of their other animations, please go to www.youtube.com/cobblerssc.

The Cobblers Secondary Advanced Animation Club restarted last night after a short Christmas hiatus, with films and animation planning beginning for this years larger scale films. Whilst Graham, Dale and Chris planned and began scripting their next film, Lewis, James and Tre began production on their future short animations.

With the use of the new cameras, Tre experimented with camera angles and filming styles, creating this short test action sequence. Take a look below at what he came up with:

This week the Gateway Supporter To Reporter group were tasked with creating and designing a completely brand new sport for the London 2012 Olympics, establishing the rules, equipment needed and the name of their brand new sport. After a few minutes of planning in their groups the students set about creating and designing every asset of their new sport, including mascots, logos and how to win. All the data was then brought together and presented in Powerpoints, Posters and display boards.
In the coming weeks a few of the sports will be presented as part of film, animations and podcasts in the hope of creating awareness for their new sports so keep an ear out for the exciting soon to be hit crazes of Apple Whack, Yoda Ball, Laptop Ball and Egg Crush!

The Gateway Year 7 group this week have been using their ICT skills to create posters and fact sheets, advertising a fictional International Fifa street Football Tournament, which was then played out using the Xbox 360.

After drawing a random country from a hat, the boys had to research their new nationality using the centres European passport guides, before preparing a poster to advertise their new team, stadium, capital city and landmarks. Once the posters had been finished, the team then played out a Fifa Street Tournament on the Xbox 360 to decide the winner.

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