Magic Lantern Movies

Magic Lantern's Interactive Video

2008-11-15T02:21:00.003+01:00

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Animals of Colchester

2007-07-26T01:09:00.001+02:00

Made with Class 3JR Superstars at St Michael's Primary, as part of the excellent Arts Council funded ArC project with firstsite and CSN consultancy . ArC looks at creative ways of teaching citizenship by developing projects with artists working alongside primary classes in Colchester. Our theme was Working Together and teams of children created masks, storyboards and scripts. The advantage of working with masks is that everyone who wants gets to be a performer. The film is based on the Grimms' tale "The Bremen Town Musicians". In our version a disparate team of animals decide to escape from Colchester Zoo to join the army...I began to wonder if we would have time to do the filming as the masks took so long - but they were wrth the waiting I think.

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Cosi Fan Tutte

2007-07-26T01:07:00.001+02:00

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Saxlingham's version of Mozart's masterpiece. Based on a performance developed with the Theatre Royal, Norwich in the autumn tern 2006, this project was the centrepiece of a CARA2 project researching childrens' ability to reflect on their own creativity in the context of a collaborative project.

The Burston Rebellion

2007-07-26T01:03:00.000+02:00

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The Nonny

2007-07-26T01:02:00.001+02:00

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Made with a group of teachers at a Creative Partnerships CPD session at Caister High School.
The aim was to prove that with a bit of knowhow film making doesn't have to take very long. In 20 minutes we made puppets, scenery, recorded and filmed the poem. I edited and uploaded it to blip.tv when I got home (15 minutes). Is this a record? Dunno but was fun - if slightly adrenalin-fuelled fun ...

Jabberwocky

2007-07-26T00:57:00.000+02:00

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A Wartime Childhood in Great Yarmouth

2007-07-26T00:54:00.000+02:00

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Monkey See, Monkey Do

2007-07-26T00:49:00.000+02:00

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The Mewlips

2007-07-26T00:45:00.000+02:00

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The Highwayman

2007-07-26T00:37:00.000+02:00

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Krakus and the Dragon

2007-07-26T00:35:00.001+02:00

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Made with Year 5 Children of St. Mary's RC Primary School, Gorleston, Norfolk UK.

Based on a Polish folk-tale this was created by separate teams of children working through the entire film-making process to produce scenes which were edited together at the end of the process. I have had some strange technical problems with this piece - I suspect the dragon of seeking revenge...

The King's Command

2007-07-25T23:55:00.000+02:00

A puppet re-telling of the Greek myth of Perseus. Made entirely by Year 3 and 4 children at Palgrave Primary School, Suffolk. The children were involved in the entire process over the course of a year-long Magic Lantern Learning project with Hartismere cluster of schools. It was filmed using Digital Blue cameras and demonstrates that they are probably best used for stop-frame animation - see the impressive Medusa section in the middle

Sixty Years of Change

2007-07-25T23:53:00.000+02:00

A digital story made with Years 5 and 6 at Saxlingham Primary School, Norfolk, about the way school life has changed since the 1940s. This project was designed to entirely replace the written element of QCA Unit 13

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

2007-07-25T23:51:00.000+02:00

A puppet version of the traditional tale. Made with families at St. Peter's Primary School, Easton, Norfolk, as part of an Extended Schools project.

Little Rabbit Foo Foo

2007-07-25T23:50:00.000+02:00

Made with Y5 and Y6 at Gislingham Primary. The distinctive feature of this film is the multi-layered soundtrack, which features voices, special effects, foley and music. It is clearly apparent that the children really enjoyed performing this traditional tale. The puppets and background are in muted colour, making the visuals very much second to the sound - until the morphing climax, when Foo Foo gets his come-uppance...

Lotato

2007-07-25T23:48:00.001+02:00

The Jolly Leprechaun and the Purple Fuzz

2007-07-25T23:43:00.000+02:00

An animation made by Susannah Taplin and Bethany Hamilton - two participants in the National Association for the Gifted Child Family Day - during the animation workshop, run by Tim Brook of Magic Lantern : Learning through Film, at Shenley Brook High School in Milton Keynes.

My Life from the Beginning

2007-07-25T23:38:00.001+02:00

A digital story made by Sadie Catton and her Mum, Janet, about Sadie's early years as a fairground traveller. The images are a scrapbook of family photos - scanned and with "rostrum" camera effects. Funded by Suffolk Traveller Education Support Service.

The Spooky House

2007-07-25T23:35:00.000+02:00

A puppet film with lots of effects... Written and performed by the Years 3 and 4 at Stanton Primary School, Suffolk. One of a pair of films made in a two-day project - the other being 'Sally's Journey'.

Sally's Journey

2007-07-25T23:30:00.002+02:00

Lazy Jack

2007-07-24T23:39:00.001+02:00

Made with Year 2 Children at Winhills Primary, Cambridgeshire. Traditional English folk tale with contemporary tweaks. Made as a Vital Communities project with Gina Ferrari, textile artist. It combines stills of children's silhouette 'puppets' and collage backgrounds (made with Gina) and stills of businesses in and around St Neots. The stills have pan and zoom effects using MS Photo Story 3.

The Gingerbread Man

2007-07-24T23:09:00.001+02:00

A puppet version of this traditional tale with an alternative ending. Made with the Year 1 children at Kessingland Primary School, as part of the Suffolk Traveller Education Support Service's 'Moving Up' project. Very sweet...

The Nativity Story

2007-07-24T22:54:00.000+02:00

A puppet version of the Christmas story, made with Key Stage 1 children at Burston Primary School in a one-day workshop, conceived and led by Tim Brook. A delightful retelling by the children, accompanied by their puppetry and including some very simple animation.

Vandals!

2007-07-24T21:19:00.001+02:00

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This short video is a collage of sound and images illustrating and exploring ideas generated by a questionnaire that was distributed in Robert Kett School, Wymondham. The video was made with Participate - an artists' collective specialising in using the arts to consult young people - in collaboration with a group of young people assembled by Wymondham Action for Youth

St Edmund's Story

2007-07-24T20:56:00.001+02:00

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Some people feel that Edmund would be a better patron saint for England than George. Pupils from Creeting and Gt. Finborough in Suffolk made this puppet film in two half-day workshops with Magic Lantern. The stills and stream footage were taken in Hoxne.