Aardman Animations have animated 13-year-old Hannah Mason's short film storyboard following a national storyboarding competition hosted by the film and education charity Into Film, the IPO and the Industry Trust for IP Awareness.
The teenager who attends Avon Valley College in Salisbury, submitted her winning idea ‘Zombie Fairy’ – which shows the craft and graft that goes into film-making to encourage people to support the UK film industry – and has seen the story turned into a short animated film made by the award winning studio. The 30-second film will be screened to hundreds of thousands of young people at over 2,700 screenings and events this November as part of the Into Film Festival, which takes place across the breadth of the UK. The festival enables young people aged 5-19 to learn through and about film, interact with filmmakers and explore filmmaking, promoting traditional and visual literacy and encourage critical thinking.
The competition under-pinned a resource to teach young people about the value and importance of copyright to creativity, encouraging them to view film legitimately through ‘above board’ channels, which can be found via www.FindAnyFilm.com. The resource was designed to fit into the D&T curriculum and taught young people stop-motion animation, about careers available in the UK film industry, and tasked young people to create a pro-copyright animated storyboard to raise the issue of copyright with young people.
As a part of the winning prize, the winner also received an all-expenses-paid trip along with classmates, to the Aardman studio in Bristol to have an exclusive meeting with the Aardman production team about bringing their winning storyboard to life. The winner and friends also got an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the studio, which is currently in production on Shaun the Sheep The Movie, which is set for a UK theatrical release in February 2015
