The Gizzen Briggs

A Flash animation made by David Smith and Bob Pegg, in collaboration with first year students in the Art Department of Tain Royal Academy, Ross-shire, in the Scottish Highlands; based on a local traditional story, and made as part of the Merry Dancers Storytelling Project. The Gizzen Briggs is the name of a sandbank across the Dornoch Firth, and the story explains how it came to be there. Animator David Smith worked with the children for one period a week over eight weeks, explaining the techniques of Flash animation. The children made all the images, and also the self-portraits which tell the tale, in the children's own voices (recorded in a cupboard adjoining the classroom). The animation won an EngageScotland Art in Education award of £1000 which was ploughed back into the Merry Dancers storytelling Project. None of this would have been possible, given the rigidity of secondary school timetabling and curriculum, without the enthusiastic support of the Tain Royal Academy Art Department, and, in particular, teacher Mike Rush. Music by the school orchestra, also, coincidentally, called The Gizzen Briggs.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• David
• Smith
• Bob
• Pegg
• Animation
• Gizzen
• Briggs
• Scottish
• Highlands
• Tain
• Royal
• Academy
• Mike
• Rush
• Folk
• tale
• Legend.

[doug360x]

lol

[h1m616]

& Mrs Gray there all here 1:54 apart from the ginger hair...

OxO

[h1m616]

I didnt know Mrs Beaton made the part 1:49...Mwha

I hope she doesnt have the internet ha!

OxOx

[creathana]

Aaa I never knew this was on youtube!! Brings back memories of first year haha!

[xXxGiLlMaCkxXx]

I play in Gizzen Briggs=] x...X...x