challenging experience

 Hi,

I am Sushma from grade 10th Studying in Christel House India, Bangalore. This is my first experience in stopmotion animation.

At first, we listed out ten topics and choose one topic, in those ten topics our topic was on ‘stray dogs’. We choose that topic because it was a debatable one, and it is the most important nuisance happening in Bangalore city now. The most difficult part of our project was drawing the characters based on our story and we had to make them as puppets. Even, we had to cut the pictures correctly in the desired shape and size and colour them properly because when there’s a small mistake also it will be seen big in the bigger screen and even light should be sufficient for taking the photographs. It was a challenging experience for me in doing this animation

       
There is no solution for these stray dogs nuisance yet, but we our putting on a question to the audience at last to get a proper solution for this problem and also we are bringing the awareness of the stray dogs.

        This project made all our team members to become more creative and thoughtful. It was the most enjoyable experience and we learn a lot in doing this stop-motion animation. This animation is totally different from software (Flash) animation.

        I hope this project will create a good awareness and will be a good message to all.

Sushma

Grade 10

Christel House India, Bangalore

very new and different

Dear AYV Team,

We choose this film as it speaks about peace and knowledge. These two things are very important for our day to day life. They are the two aspects which maintain a balance in our society.

First we started with the storyboard. This is our school prayer and we have been reciting it for many years so we wanted to visualize this prayer and show it to others. This was my first visual poem so I found it a bit difficult because we had to follow the lyrics of the poem and place pictures accordingly.

We visited different places to take shots. This was a very peaceful place. The shots which we took from this place were suitable for our visual poem. Shooting required a lot of time. The editing was very difficult because we had a lot to choose from. We had to see that each line had a related picture. Managing time was another problem as we had to attend our regular classes and work on our project.

I got a chance to learn something which was very new and different, that is "Green Screen Effect". With the green background for an object we can replace it with any other kind of background. This was my favorites and i enjoyed it a lot.

This project has been a good learning process.

Anjali. P
Grade 12
Christel House India, Bangalore

Hi AYV Team,

I am Nandini. Venkatesh grade 10 from Christel House India, Bangalore.  This is my first experience working in stop motion animation. We had to first decide topics to start working on the project. So we choose ten topics and finally decided one topic that is stray dog. We also had to decide the characters. For stop motion animation there is no necessary of software. We chose this topic because this is a debatable one because there is no perfect solution for this and none have done a project on this. Its gonna be a challenging one for us. We faced some challenges such as, we had to carefully draw pictures, color them properly, cut them properly and so on. If suppose a slight mistake is made then we had to rework on it because when put on TV screen a huge mistake will be seen. The reflection of light while shooting pictures should carefully be done. One more thing we almost re-shot the pictures three times.

The main reason why we chose this is to spread awareness to people about the accidents and diseases caused by the stray dogs. Even though cupa organistion takes care of them not all can be taken care. So we put a question mark at the end to the audience for a solution. Its great being a part of stop motion animation team.i hope this awareness will bring some change.

thanks and regards,

Nandini. Venkatesh

We started a stop motion animation

There is a huge debate raging amongst the citizens of Bangalore – between the animal lovers and the others who feel that stray dogs are a menace to the city.

We started a stop motion animation  about stray dogs.

Recently the issue started with a 7 years old girl being mauled to death by a pack of street dogs near her house. A hue and cry was raised by many citizens who felt or have experienced the menace created by street dogs in Bangalore. The situation turned to worse when another 4 year old boy was mauled to death. The city corporation swung into action and ordered that stray dogs should be captured and culled.

A few section of the citizen, especially those who have been terrorized by the stray dogs before felt that this was the only way in which Bangalore could be freed from stray dogs. Another section felt that the culling of dogs was inhuman, since they also have the right to share the planet along with us.

The biggest challenge

The video we are currently working on is written by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. The idea to take this particular poem is that this is our school prayer. I personally have been repeating this prayer since 9 years and wanted to create a video for this particular poem to coney to the world the importance of peace and harmony.i personally fell that the video should be powerful hence it conveys the message we are trying to spread...

we have used much of the natural colours (earth colours). to make the video visually strong.

i  love the Tagore has conveyed the message hence we want to share it to the whole world and let them know the depth of it..

 

The biggest challenge I am facing is to manage my studies as well as to complete the project in a given time as I am having my exams. But still my team has the hope of doing the best we can.

we are implementing different technique to present it differently............................

thanks for all your support

Shiva Sager

( Grade 12, Christel House India, Bangalore)

We faced many challenges

Hi AYV Team,

  I thank AYV for giving me an opportunity to work in their film.( A Visual Poem, by Christel House India, Bangalore) )  Especially I thank out Educator for selecting me to work in this project.

                  With the help of my group members we choose a topic on which we planned to make the film. We faced many challenges to work in this film. The first challenge was to keep up the time. We did not have enough time, due to our regular classes in college.we sacrificed our lunch,recess, break fast time. At last we choose the poem written by Rabindranath tagore, from the book Gitanjali.

                          Every one in our group gave there own ideas to contribute in the film. We got scoldings from our art and media teacher for not being on time. We nearly took 3 weeks to make the story board. When we submitted the story board many people shot many questions regarding our ideas. We were able to face all the question which arose from the audience.

                                              We shot many scenes, for our film. According to our story board   now we are finished with the rough cut of our film.

                                               We are still in search for the title for our film. 

                                                                                            -  Nithin kumar

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