'Little Brother'

Here is the finished video that the HNC class worked on in collaboration with the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and Chris Bradley, a professional animator. 
The theme of the film is 'protest', however the class were given free reign of how the film fitted with that particular theme. In the end, we decided as a group on the idea of 'Big Brother society' or surveillance. We chose this because it is a topic that is widely covered by the media and many people feel very strongly about the idea of being watched by the government whilst going about their every day business. 


Matthew Johnson, who gave us the brief initially, writes for the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery's blog. Below are the posts that he wrote about the project, including various photographs of the hnc class working on the film. 

Museum Project (Session 3)

During our third visit to the museum, we began to build our sets, props and characters. We were split into three groups and each group were assigned a set. Then we went off in our groups and began to brainstorm our ideas for the set that we had been given. The group that I had been put in had been assigned the 'Little Brother's Bedroom/Landing', so we thought of various ways in which we could decorate and furnish his bedroom and then started moulding furniture out of plasticine and wood, and making the wallpaper.

Museum Project

The HNC class have teamed up with the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery to create an animated video for their new exhibition, with the topic being 'protest'. Today, we had our first session with the museum which was very successful; we learnt a lot about how animation videos are made and brainstormed a lot of ideas in regards to the storyline for the video.

We are hoping to stick to this strict schedule, due to the fact that it is a live brief with a client and therefore, will need to be completed by a certain date in order to fit in with the exhibition itself. 

Below is a photograph of my groups' brainstorm of ideas. We came up with ideas for a video based on feminism because we felt that this topic goes hand-in-hand with the idea of protest - we thought that we could link it to the suffragette movement or women's fight for rights to equal pay etc. After we had been split into groups, we sat down and discussed with the rest of the groups our ideas. Eventually, we agreed on a storyline based around the idea of 'big brother society' and surveillance. I think that this will make for a really interesting story that is relevant to wide variety of people which is what the museum was aiming for, as the people that visit it tend to be from all different backgrounds, races etc.