Monday, 16 August 2010

Biomation - Friends film

We've just finished a week at Lime Trees working on the latest Biomation film, which is about Friends. It was a really good week, and the rough cut is looking great. There is some post-production to do, and then we'll upload the final film here - Watch this space!







Friday, 21 May 2010

New Biomation Project...

We are currently busy planning the latest Biomation project, and are pleased to be working with a group of young people and Bron Urwin at Lime Trees (York CAMHS)

The project will investigate the nature of 'friendship' and promises to produce another useful and insightful piece....

Watch this space for new info!

Biomation at Eureka!


Excitingly, the Biomation exhibition unit has been delivered to Eureka! the National Children's Museum in Halifax. We are really pleased about this as it will bring the exhibition to a whole new audience. More details to follow...

Monday, 22 February 2010

Our latest film and Film Festival News!

This is our latest film - Survival Tips for Deaf teenagers. Enjoy!!

We are very pleased to announce that this film, as well as our film 'Top 5 Tips for Deaf young people' will be shown at Deaffest 2010 in May this year. It's a highly regarded film festival and we are very happy that they will be showing the films. You can find out more at: http://deaffest.co.uk/



A short animation made by a group of Deaf teenagers giving survival tips for awkward situations that sometimes come up in everyday life. Both funny and useful, this is an invaluable guide for any Deaf teenagers, their friends and family, and especially for bus drivers..!

Here are a few pictures from the week spent with the group creating the film (Click on them for bigger versions):




Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Top 5 tips for communicating with Deaf young people

Top 5 tips for communicating with Deaf young people



This is a short film made with a group of Deaf young people to help teachers and pupils to understand how best to communicate with them. It covers common mistakes which the young people found in school, and which make their lives more difficult and frustrating. Animation is used to get the information across in a fun way, and is intended to be watched and understood by hearing and non-hearing audiences.

The Top Tips are:
1: Avoid visual distractions 2: Position yourself properly 3: Make yourself clear 4: How to get attention 5: What to do in group situations

Here are some pictues from the project as well as a video of some taster animations done during the sessions.