Crawford Schools -- DreamFlight Competition

My girlfriend, Jennifer, is a teacher at Crawford Prep, Sandton. She's also on the Ministry of Creativity, a national body aimed at spreading creativity in the classroom over all of the Crawford schools.

She recently asked me if it would be okay to help her out with a little video explaining the competition to her colleagues. We decided to approach it as a creative multimedia project.

She got photos and video footage of previous winners. I then made caricatures of them on ArtRage 2.5 on my tablet pc. I took my video camera to her classroom to get some moving footage for the vid. We asked the various winners for voice recordings of their accomplishments. We recorded these on my cellphone voicemail. And then tried to make the quality acceptable. I think we achieved that mostly. But some of Sean's talk is a bit lost in the electronic muddle.

I then took the voices and caricatures into CrazyTalk 6 (I'm using the closed beta version at the moment), and powered them to life.

This video is the result.

Sadly, non-Crawford people can't enter the competition. So this is here just so you can see the kinds of stuff they've up to.

Thanks once again to Antony Raijekov for his awesome Creative Commons licensed music. The track you hear is a slightly modified version of 'Fidder (2004)', from the 2007 album JAZZ U. It's licensed as CC 'Attribution, Non-Commercial'. Go grab it for yourself at Jamendo -- http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3777

Three of the photos that appear briefly in the vid are from Flickr, also released under Creative Commons licenses. They are: 'Dream' by Ravichri (CC By-Attr-ND), 'Innovate' by Uncleweed (CC Attr-Share-Alike), and 'Yourself' by Ami Harikoshi (CC Attr). All other pictures are fair-use to illustrate the public topics they deal with.

All of the illustrations and animations are mine. As is the DreamFlight logo. I designed it using Creative Commons licensed illustrations that I modified.

Enjoy!

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[ticherryorg]

im looking at using crazy talk for our youth ministry. This has alot of potiental your students did a great job. I think i like it i was just wondering about the learning curve but your kids seem to do fine.

[royblumenthal]

@ticherryorg

Hiya... CrazyTalk is incredibly easy to use. The learning curve is trivial. Kids would easily be able to crack it.

This video was not made by school kids, however. It was made by me. So don't use it as a yardstick for what kids can accomplish! They'd probably do BETTER than me! Heheheh.

Blue skies

Roy

[RecipeForLaughter1]

ummm is this suppose to be funny coz it is

[FreaksOfAmimation]

Its easy whit a Crazy Talk 6

[spikesan2211]

umm ok how did u do that animations the video must of took a long time lol but nice job

[mk181818]

I am not impressed with this cheesy video clip. It does not do any good for promotion of Crazy Talk program. IMHO

[sharonlansdell]

The DIY Project at Crawford Fourways work sooo well !

Congrats Kemble