Age limits fore movies and games

The same thing is time after time discussed with children and sometime I get to wonder why parents put their children in harm’s way when they don’t follow the age limits on games and movies. Over and over this needs to be discussed with children and their parents. It’s a responsibility for parents to control what their children are doing and this also applies to the age limits of movies and games. Children compete who has seen ore played R rated (18) movies ore games. Studies show it is bad for a child’s development to watch what is not meant for their age. Please don’t be passive be active in fostering your children.

About age restrictions in Finland (Finnish)

We inform about age limits with a little screen where parents come in with their children to kindergarten and a leaflet to take home.



The story is unfolding

The story starts at a kindergarten where children is at morning gathering and the day takes a strange turn and no one knows where it will end. In animating the imagination sets the limits, When introducing animating I give the story a start and the animating children do the rest and make the journey fun while animating and sometimes when they get going it’s hard to stop. 

Storyboard

 Not yet ready background

The children are at the age of 5 and 6 and critical with the result, first thoughts how do you make the hands disappear. When they tried to move and click move and click move and click they understand how it’s done they comment if there by mistake are hands showing in the animation. Sometimes I delete the pictures that shows hands and sometime I leave them in the animation as an evidence of the process making animations.

Today the discussion at breakfast handled the amount of televisions they have at home at most three but many had one or two.

New Animators

We needed to start over we now have a old computer but new fore us to animate with, I have used my own until now but do to the hard use lots of animating and rendering it took a dive and is no more. Getting a new group of children to animate was easy, as always they got inspired and some short animations were made. Soon some will be published here on this blog.

Animation studio

I appreciate the interest in what we do and hope it inspire someone to take a step towards this way of working with children.

Spindelgubben

Spindelgubben animation started with an idea to storyboard and making of the stage the hero is Spiderman but with a new name Spideruncle with blue tack under the feet so he can stand. A simple story some bad robots come to destroy the city. Spideruncle tryes to stop them but gets stuck in his own net.

Making the scenery was fun putting in two real lights and making the grass areas by cutting yarn painting the streets and gluing sand in the arias at the middle. It took some time but just as fun as filming. Silent one stage filming begun with laughter and fun for both Children and characters in front of the camera. Children start acting in front of the camera when nothing else is happening in the scenery and somebody snaps some pictures and that is fun some of the pictures can later be added in the end text.

The filming did not take long when preparations where made ACTION one child took pictures and other children mowed the characters. Children also like to watch when the animation is made and the story unfolds. The animation is made in a short time whit enough accuracy that it can be put together but not takes too long to make. The movement of the character is about 1 cm/mowe and the camera operator says when the picture is taken so the mowers now when to get out of the way, out of frame. Sound is chosen and made by the children that participate in editing.

The movie is ready and will be edited so you can see it on internet soon.

Video Editing easy as ABC

I hawe had children editing their own material just wathing the project being put together is interesting children are influenced by what they seen in different medias. Children   understand how videoediting work suprisingly fast. The fact that use of computers and internet starts at a young age can hawe something to do with it.

Videoediting comes with doing together with a friend and working towards a result that satisfies all ivolved in editing. Enjoying the result is always fun and rewarding.

Media around us

Everywhere we go today different kind of media can be seen, clothing stores, supermarkets basically all over. Children interprets media as they experience them it could be different. Parents and the educational system could give more support and hawe a educateing part. When working with children makeing animations ore talking about media often comes to mind that children are often aloun with thought about what they experience while handling different media.

Digital Paintings

Children got to use a drawing pad connected to a computer and some intresting work of art was produced. The prise is at least 2000 eur a piece to use as you wish. It's a bargain they are artists of the future.

 

Iloista

Prinsessa

Raketti

The situation came from the curiosity of a child. The name of the artworks are iloista, Prinsessa and raketti.