Produced for Village Arts an animation workshop for pupils of Huntcliff Secondary School at Saltburn-by-the-Sea run by Dave Brunskill of Animha Productions. In the first part of the film pupils working in two groups to produce two short black and white cut out animations. This is followed by both their films beginning with " Life is a Sticky Bun” about the adventures of an ant that gets stuck on a sticky bun and “Fred’s Unlucky Day Out” about the misadventures of a character call Fred...

Produced for Village Arts an animation workshop for pupils of Huntcliff Secondary School at Saltburn-by-the-Sea run by Dave Brunskill of Animha Productions. In the first part of the film pupils working in two groups to produce two short black and white cut out animations. This is followed by both their films beginning with " Life is a Sticky Bun” about the adventures of an ant that gets stuck on a sticky bun and “Fred’s Unlucky Day Out” about the misadventures of a character call Fred trying to enjoy a day out. Title: Village Arts Animation Workshops @ Huntcliff School Saltburn Autumn 1999 In a classroom at Huntcliff Secondary School groups of pupil’s plan-out and create characters and backgrounds for their black and white cutout animations. The group work together to animate the cells they’ve created using two video cameras mounted on a tripod alongside a monitor. Title: Village Arts presents Life is a Sticky Bun An ant falls onto a sticky bun and becomes stuck. It gets picked up by the wind and blown onto the beach of a desert island where it is washed away by the sea. On another beach a teepee and totem pole with a fire burning beside them. A smoke signal from the fire in the sky reads ‘HELP!’. The ant, still attached to the bun, washes up on the beach beside the tent. A figure appears and proceeds to whip the ant after it asks the man for help. A UFO appears over the ant who is beamed aboard the ship before flying away. Arriving on another plant with craters the ant and bun is beamed down to the surface after which the spacecraft spins of screen. An alien appears and offers to help, but on trying to pull the ant free loses an arm. Two smaller spaceships appear and pull the ant on the bun to a space city landing it on a table. Beside the ant a second alien also sitting on a table. The UFO returns cutting that aliens head off and the film ends on a large foot coming down and crushing the ant. Credit: Film by Adam Carrison, Ben Woodrow, Sam Williams, Scott Sanders Title: Fred’s Unlucky Day Out Fred wakes up in bed. He gets up and heads outside and is run over by car as he crosses a suburban road. Getting up he continues his walk saying hello to a cow in a field. Suddenly a giant tomato appears jumping onto Fred knocking him to the ground. In a wood a snake hides behind a tree as Fred approaches. It jumps out and bites Fred’s arm off before running away. Continuing his walk Fred passes two trees in a field out from behind which steps a man in camouflage holding a gun. He proceeds to shoot Fred after which he is run over by a tank as it dives past. With his alarm clock ringing the film ends with Fred waking in bed to realise it had all been a bad dream. Credit: Animation Production Team Bryan McGloyn, Owen Patterson, Joanne Laven, Katheryn Turner, Andrew Malone Workshop Leader Dave Brunskill Title: A Village Arts production 1999 Made in collaboration with Huntcliff School Saltburn End title: Supported by The Carnegie UK Trust