Surviving Bullies Project Blog
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Get Ready for Some Animating!
s summer moves into fall, we proudly present to you: The Surviving Bullies Project Animation Competition, sponsored in conjunction with Willoughby and Lamont Productions! It is a competition open to all students in animation and interactive media design programs across the country. The goal is to see who can take an emotionally charged concept from the Surviving Bullies Workbook and bring it alive using a combination of the narrative, moving images, color or lack there of if one chooses to do it in black and white, and music. The animations will be incorporated into the electronic version of the Surviving Bullies Workbook and future curriculum materials that will be distributed nationwide. We are experimenting with the latest technology that allows a marriage of text and video/animation in a PDF file, as we speak.
What is at stake with the animations is helping students gain a deeper understanding of key issues that are integral in bullying and growing up (i.e. self-awareness, coping with stress, avoiding social faux pas, etc), which are crucial to achieving better personal and academic life.
It is also important for us to make the Animation Competition a worthwhile experience for the participating students. In addition to the immense learning for everyone who tackles the challenge of animating an emotional charged issue for a teen audience ranging from 7th to 9th grade, the winners will receive a monetary prize of up to $1000 (no matter who you are, a little cash doesn’t hurt) and a contract offer (gives you a little sense of security for the first few years out of school, and ladies and gents, it will make you feel like America’s Next Top Model or a VIP in professional sports, and vice versa). Also, competing in this challenge will give you major bragging rights to people ranging from your closest friends to the most formidable job interviewer. Think: Profolio!
So if you’re animation savvy, click HERE to learn more about the competition and submit your entry!
And…pass the word on. It’s for a very important cause.
Posted by Dickon on 10/05/06 at 09:36 AM
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