When I was a young boy I got a video camera as a Christmas present and documented family life and made own camera tricks. Edited the videos on VCR player that allowed no mistakes ore it had to be done all over again. With some of my friends we did a parody of a known TV series we filmed on the streets of Vaasa and at a Friends home it was fun to make. Sadly the tape was recorded over I suspect my dad so I don't haw it anymore. Years went by....
When I started working doing summers as a young boy and got my first paycheck I bought a new video camera with the small screen on the side so you didn't have to keep your nose to the battery and look through the small screen. Documenting life as it went by and capturing moments to remember. When my family started to take shape it felt important to record and in the only way besides memories capturing times we got our dogs, when our children were born their childhood where we lived went on vacation and everyday life. Some wedding's and other happenings have been saved on tape by me fore friends and family. And then..
Working with children and letting them make own films and animations started about 2003 when the personal made a film about Child's day at kindergarten. Then 2005 I attended Videotivoli in Tampere FINLAND a film festival fore children at the time. There I got to animate with Annemette Karpen from the Danish Animationhuset also met Earling Eriksson that introduced the BOX and cutout animation.
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| Animation BOX |
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Back in Tampere 2006 and Videotivoli workshops Thomas Schneider-Trumpp from Germany Studio Clayart with his animation character Dragon. Ruth Helene Melikoranski and Sondra Lampmann from Estonia nuku film children's studio.
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| The stage (Thomas Schneider-Trumpp) |
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10 frames animation
Made at Videotivoli
And 2007 I attended a seminar as a speaker medialiteracy.info a Nordic Conference on Media Education. I presented the way I work with children animation and film making the fact I work on a practical level made a big impact on the audience especially researchers that had the plan but the actualization was missing.
Since then I have been involved in various projects, I'm strongly concerned about children and youth in today's media jungle and yes “it’s a jungle out there”
The main concern teachers have is lack of time but my concern is not the time you have but how you use it, educational goals can be achieved in more ways but one the Finnish school system is doing well in world wide measures but there is always room fore improvements and development. The future is tomorrow and children the content.
Let's go
The App is important and what if it the App makes the user passive and by that I mean that the learning process is not supported by the activity provided. The
meaning when using computer or tablet is setting up a goal and how to reach the
goal can be decided by the child/children in the group. The Application used can not set boundarys but support the structure and help childrens fantasy and open mindnes we should secure this forse. Give your self the time it takes trye fail and do it again.
