Yesterday we started our series of six new film/animation workshops at the NAS Lynx Centre in Weston Super Mare. These will run until 28th February with a break on the
14th February. Our lead animator Dom from ‘Calling the Shots’ is working with a fantastic young animator called Lila and 6-8 interested centre users, ranging in ages from mid 20s to 40s. It’s a drop in structure with a different focus each week and Dom/Lila will collate pictures, short animations and blog reports for the project website from next week.
Yesterday we also started conversations with artists who will be contributing to the visual tracks of the three films we have planned to make about our research themes: ‘diagnosis’, ‘neurodiversity’, and ‘treatment’. Our rough interview plan is:
1.To describe the project
2. How do you like to work?
- where do you work?
- what’s your working pattern like?
3. What are you hoping to learn from the project?
- skills?
- techniques?
- what support do you think you might need?
By the end of the week we will have talked to
Angela Weddle
JA Tan
James Frye
Mahlia Amatina
The next steps are for us to develop a work package for each of these artists, software, hardware etc as well as techniques they’d like to learn. We will then begin to schedule a visit to each during April. Dom will travel first to Texas and then to Washington and finally Vancouver to spend time with each artist. He will separately plan visits to Mahlia, who is UK based. Dom will teach them and set them up with a production base. He will fit round their working patterns and spend a minimum of 2-3 sessions with them. He will then provide support via email and Skype and we will set up a Dropbox folder for their work in progress.
Our plan is for Dom to re-visit in September/October, to provide one-to-one support and training for each artist as their film work develops.