Produced for Village Arts an animation workshop for pupils of Rosecroft Secondary School in Loftus run by Dave Brunskill of Animha Productions. In the first part of the film pupils working in groups to produce two short animations in Claymation. This is followed by their productions beginning with "The Legend of the White Lady" and followed by "The Roman Steps". Title: Animation Workshops In a classroom at Rosecroft Secondary School pupils sit watching a video on how to...

Produced for Village Arts an animation workshop for pupils of Rosecroft Secondary School in Loftus run by Dave Brunskill of Animha Productions. In the first part of the film pupils working in groups to produce two short animations in Claymation. This is followed by their productions beginning with "The Legend of the White Lady" and followed by "The Roman Steps". Title: Animation Workshops In a classroom at Rosecroft Secondary School pupils sit watching a video on how to make an animated film. Following the screening they sit around tables in two groups of boys and girls discussing what they would like to make and produces some basic pencil drawings. Using plasticine on wireframes both groups create figures for their films changing to the groups working side-by-side on their animations. While one pupil stands behind the video camera, the other members of their team work to animate the figures on a hand-made background set. Title: The Legend of the White Lady The first of the two Claymation films begins with two girls sitting around a fire outside a castle. They begin to talk about the White Lady and after saying her name three times she appears as a ghost and chasing one of the girls of screen. In a clearing the ghostly White Lady catches up with the girl who ran away as she falls over but manages to hit the ghost over the head with a stick. A ghostly child appears and takes away the White Lady while a man comes over to help the girl on the group. Returning to the campfire beside the castle the girl asks her friend if it was all a dream? Both girls disappear and the White Lady and the ghostly child appear with the film end on them waving at the camera before disappearing themselves. Credit: Made by Jessica Simpson, Lisa Johns Title: The Roman Steps! The second Claymation begins with a spotted dog walking around two trees urinating against one of them. The dog’s owner pats the animal before walking along a set of steps and jumping into a pond or lake possibly going after the dog which has disappeared. As an owl watches from a tree, a set of bones appear to swirl in the water. A Roman solider appears comes along the steps with his sword drawn laughing. Seeing the bones in the water he spits at them before leaving. Credit: Made by Gary Welford, Robert Winspear, Alex Broom Title: Workshop presented by Dave Brunskill for Village Arts Funded by The Carnegie UK Trust Thanks to Rosecroft Secondary School Loftus End title: Village Arts productions © 97