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Get Animated

4/1/2012

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By: Michelle Zeng and Sunni Zhou

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presents “Get Animated” to give kids the chance to learn how to animate. “Get Animated” was really popular. Over 30 kids attended the programon October 30, 2011.

The program invited guest speaker, Co Hoedeman, known for his Oscar award winning film the “Sandcastle”. He was there to demonstrate his animation techniques and also to teach kids how to animate.

The kids made their own animated videos. Hoedeman divided 30 kids into groups. Each group made one animated video and the characters to go along with it. The characters for the videos had to be made in a special way in order for the video to be more interesting. For example, to make a person, the artist would have
to draw a head, cut it out, draw the face, cut it out, and then do the same for the rest of the body. The animated characters were made like this so each body part can move and make facial expressions.

One second in an animated film will need 24 pictures. Since there was only an hour for the kids to create the characters and the videos, all the videos were fairly short.

Despite all the work involving creating animations, Hoedeman said, “Creating animations is simple.”

Perhaps that’s why so many people attended “Get Animated.”

Voice K had a chance to sit down with Hoedeman:

Voice K: Is it hard to make animated videos?
Hoedeman: No, actually it is very simple.
Voice K: Roughly how many videos have you made so far?
Hoedeman: So far, I have made 23 films. They are all animated films. All of my videos are for children.
Voice K: How do you get ideas for your videos?
Hoedeman: All the videos I have made are based on what I have seen and experienced.
Voice K: Which video of yours got an award?
Hoedeman: Many of the videos I made have gotten an award. One of my videos, “The Sandcastle,” received an Oscar Award in 1978, which was a long time ago.
Voice K:  What materials did you use to make your videos?
Hoedeman: I didn’t always use paper. For “The Sandcastle”, I used puppets made of sand.
Voice K: What was your favourite part of today?
Hoedeman: My favourite part of today was helping the children to get ideas. I really like how the children made the artwork.

Hoedeman was not the only person who was enthusiastic about “Get Animated!” Many other people gave “Get Animated” a thumb up. One participant, Kyle said, “It was very good.” Others agreed, including Glenda and her daughter, who said that “‘Get Animated’ was great! In fact, we had been to NFB art programs over 10 times,
we would love to come again.”
Later, Voice K had a chance to interview Jessie Curell, who works for NFB to organize
the program. “I was inspired by Mr. Hoedeman because it’s a rare opportunity
to work with him and learn from him,” said Jessie when asked what inspired him to
organize the event.
We really enjoyed the program, so why don’t you “Get Animated”?For more information about this program, visit www.nfb.ca/getanimated. 
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Rona Arato: A Children's Author

4/1/2012

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By: Vivian Wang

Rona Arato, a children’s book author, has 11 books published. Rona is living in the Greater Toronto Area. She was originally born in New York. When she was six, she and her family moved to California and she grew up there. She has written feature stories for magazines and newspapers about food, computers, and jewelry. She has also written with another author, but Rona has never written news before.

When Rona had children, she discovered how wonderful their company was. She loved to live with her children and she often wrote stories for them. That was when Rona started to write.

Rona’s first published book was called Ice Cream Town. It was about a boy named Sammy, who came from Europe to New York with his father during the war. Sammy was given ice cream to eat for the first time in New York. Rona had gotten this idea from her father, who had traveled from Poland to New York. To get Ice Cream Town published, Rona had to write the book three times. Some authors have to write their stories 10 times in order to get them published. In Ice Cream Town, one of the character was based on Rona’s grandmother; however, the publishers didn’t like how the character ended up.

“In order to get a book published,” said Rona, “you sometimes had to kill your own grandmother!”
Rona said that when you write about a real place in a fiction novel, you have to give facts. One of Rona’s books had won a contest in a forest of reading programs. It was the publishers who submitted her book. Her publisher also hired illustrators to do the pictures in the book.


She advised children that whenever you write about something, use lots of details, always edit drafts, and make sure that you have lots of research information and that the information is true. Authors can also learn lots of new information about what they are writing about. Sometimes, an author has too many ideas, so they 
always make sure to write down the most important and the main facts they want to have in their story. They can add new inferred ideas as they go along. Sometimes authors can also write a story that they imagine while reading anotherstory. 

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