Summer Animations 2015

Hot off the presses here are this summers Animation Day efforts - from  pure surrealism to 500 mile journeys; killer lemons, a haunted house and a robbery that has to be seen to be believed.

Mrs Bird, Ms Patterson and Mrs Whinfield had  great day working with you all:

A Journey of 500 Miles

LeMan

The Haunted House

A fine example of surrealism

The Robbery

Farra News

Here we'd like to tell you about all things 'newsletter':

Going back to 2010 when we won a regional award for our work -

And in 2012, three students headed off to London to collect our Shine Award -

Every year we take part in the BBC News Day - please see link for our most recent:

http://www.farringdonschool.co.uk/index.php/students/students-bbc-news-report-2015

Visits and Events

Sun f.m visit - GCSE Media 2014

Sunderland College visit - GCSE Media 2015

Lights, Camera, Action - an evening to remember ex-student Sarah Barton:

Have a look at the following link for local news coverage:

Link:  http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/education/friends-hold-film-night-in-memory-of-tragic-teen-sarah-1-7296536  

GCSE Media

Camera angles and short films – Y10 GCSE Media began their course this year (2014) by learning the basic camera angles and making short films based around a given theme.

Kindness
To add

Love

GCSE Film Trailers past and present – a selection of some of our best trailers from past and present students. 

This trailer is used as an example to teach other students the conventions - see the storyboard here before watching the trailer below:

Some other good examples of trailers done over the years below:

KS4 Media work

I Have the Right – in 2012 we got involved in looking at anti-abuse in relationships working with Wearside Women in Need, Gentoo and the City Council (we showcased in 2012 at the university cinema and this is still ongoing – a work pack is being delivered in schools and supported on local police website E-Beat - see link to view film and resources below: 

                                                    Some images from the campaign. 

  Below - filming the game-show scene:

Link:  https://www.northumbria.police.uk/ebeat/myres/teachers/teenabuse/index.asp 

Rules of Horror – Halloween Festival at Tyneside Cinema (2012) filmed by ex-student Sarah Barton and friends; showcased on the big screen at Tyneside Cinema.

WW1 Film Project – a group of 10 students from Y10 scripted and filmed in remembrance of the WW1 centenary.  They worked with local educational film company Act2Cam i 2014.

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KS3 Media Work

COMPETITIONS AND ACTIVITY DAYS

A dinosaur ate my homework- is a 2013 animation, it is a winner of CITV's share a story competition, it was created by a student called Molly McKeown when she was in Y7.  Here are some of the sketches done for Molly's animation at the CITV studios and also the finished film.

Anti-bullying animations- run by the city council, here is the 2014 local winner created by members of the A-Team (anti-bullying team.) Students were invited to Civic Centre for an afternoon presentation.

Here is another of the entries that we thought was particularly good:

RTS Entry- is a short animation from 2014, it is called What shall we do today? The four Year 8 girls that were involved were invited to the David Putnam Centre and their work was showcased on the big screen.

Summer Animations- 2014, just a bit of fun on an animation activity day in July.