Lesson 1 - Initial ideas

Nursery rhymes and exploration 

Unit details 

• Hand in just before christmas 
• Look into history of the stories 
• No literal interpretation 
• To become David Attenborough and start to create a visual/motion library
• Audience : Children/Historic Film/Game
  E4 short? Festivals? Childrens TV? Uni TV? YouTube? 
• Work may be shown at City of Portsmouth museum

Initial ideas 

Paual the koala vs Owl and the pussycat

• Students in Edinborough/Australia collaboration?
• Call Zoo
• Go to Edinburgh Zoo 
• Online 
• 40 seconds long
• No real history to it
• Finding your home
  
• Have a cat
• Easy to find stuffed owls
• Lots of owl and cat footage online 
•  1m - 2m30 seconds long depending on version 
• A lot of analysis but pretty much a nonsensical fairy tale poem
  Example 
• Impossible love story and not letting go
  
  

Initial inspiration 

Interested in have a live action animal and then creating an animated world around them.

Mr.Tv - Super mario cat (in real life)
Again I have a cat, but more to the point it would be possible to draw over in flash, create masks involving different techniques.

Phoebe Halstead - Derek and his shells
Video interaction with real life.


On a side note - Nothing wrong with a little bit of paint music video with tests?

The poems 

The Owl and the Pussy Cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of moneyWrapped up in a five-pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?"They sailed away, for a year and a day,To the land where the Bong-tree growsAnd there in a wood a Piggy-wig stoodWith a ring at the end of his nose,sHis nose,His nose,With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shillingYour ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."So they took it away, and were married next dayBy the Turkey who lives on the hill.They dined on mince, and slices of quince,Which they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon

Paula the koala
She moved to Guatemala
Cuz she heard the trees there were a little taller
Turned out they were smaller
So she moved to lake eufaula
Then to Walla Walla Washington
So if you live in Walla Walla
And if you see a koala
You can bet your bottom dollar
That koala’s name is Paula
Paula the koala
Who lives in walla walla
Walla walla Washington
She’s cute
She’s kind
She just might be the best marsupial that you could ever find
She’s sweet She’s smart
She’s a smalla with a great big heart