The Day The Lights Went Out
Funded by First Light Films
“A group of friends are playing on the beach when a storm breaks suddenly & they run for shelter. The Lighthouse is nearest to them & the elderly lighthouse keeper invites them in to take refuge. However all is not all what it seems…”
The Day The Lights Went Out from First Light on Vimeo.
1 day out at Souter Lighthouse (the first electric lighthouse…EVER) 10 days production time in a school in Hebburn. 19 children from Lord Blyton, Holy Trinity, Simonside and St. Marys RC Primary Schools and a couple of late nights of post production back in the studio resulted in another EPIC (Quay only gets involved with epic school projects) Animated film.
The challenge with this project was to bring together ideas from 19 children from four different schools who didn’t all know each other. Work on consecutive days with the group split in half and try to come up with an idea for a film and make it within two weeks. Fortunately for me the group consisted of some very talented 10 year olds and the ideas came fast. Then came the drawings, lots of drawings. The 2D characters were animated against a green screen and composited on top of photographs, drawings and model sets. Everything in the film was made by the children. Several of them had a go at using the various software used to composite,animate and edit their artwork. The classroom next door was converted into a sound recording studio for the dialogue and sound effects. I ate a lot of crisps over those two weeks.
The finished film was premiered at the Customs House in South Shields along with four other films funded by First Light and although i may be a little bit biased ours was the best because it was the most EPIC.
Thanks go to Simon Brown from South Tyneside Education Action Zone Improvement Partnership for asking me to be involved. Thanks also go to the members of his team who helped me during the days in school.
The film is also available to watch in full on the First Light website here
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