The Course

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MediaKids run clubs at Oxted Community Hall on Mondays and Sacred Heart Church hall, Caterham on Wednesdays and Sanderstead United Reformed Church on Fridays venues

We run weekly courses in the evening for children aged 7-12 teaching a range of animation and filmmaking skills. The weekly course is split into blocks and cover a range of exciting activities. Each session is an hour long.

We occasionally run day clubs in the school holidays. latest courses

An example of some of the many diverse activites we teach are:

Stop motion animation
example

Plasticine animation
Lego animation
Computer generated (Flash animation) example
Cell animation

 

Live Action film making
example

Writing and filming a movie, editing, adding special effects and adding sound

Adding sound and a musical score

 

Putting sound effects and a musical score on to a finished film, sometimes composed by the children

 

Editing

The children will use industry standard software including Adobe Premiere to cut, and arrange film sections and add in special effects

Special effects

Such as chromakey (green screen), laser effects peopleturning invisible etc. Children will be filmed in front of a coloured screen and then add their own backgrounds to make it look like they are somewhere else eg. an alien planet.

Lip synching
Example

 

Making plasticine characters lips move in time to recorded speech

Storyboarding

 

Planning from a comic strip type storyboard so that camera shots and angles can be planned in advance of filming

DVD design

 

Producing the menu case design for a finished film project

Pop videos

Write own pop songs and star in a music video

and much,
much more...

 

 

NOTE FOR PARENTS: These are examples of elements included in the MediaKids courses, activities may vary depending on the current project the children may be working on.

Your children may feature on DVDs taken home by other parents of children on the MediaKids course.

Please contact us if you have a question:

mediakids@live.com

MediaKids is currently running clubs at Oxted Community Hall, Sacred Heart Church Hall, Caterham, and Sanderstead United Reformed Church hall.
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