Scriptwriting for Animation
Date: 20 October 2009, 14.00 - 17.00
Location: The Movies 2
Language: English
Entrance: 15 euro (students 10 euro)
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Because creating animation is so incredibly work-intensive - every second of film is hours if not days of work - pre-production is a very important and drawn out phase. Referring to their own work, the Dane Karsten Kiilerich and the American Aaron Springer, two well known but very different film makers, discuss with moderator Paul Wells the different aspects of writing scripts for children's animation. What are the cultural differences between American and European stories? And: how can you retain tension in an animation feature?
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Paul Wells (GB) |
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Paul Wells is Director of the Animation Academy Loughborough University in England. He has written and directed documentaries and drama for radio, TV and theatre, and has also published a great deal of material about animation, including Animation and America. One recent book is Scripwriting, for which he has given workshops all over the world. |
| Speaker | Karsten Kiilerich (Denmark) |
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Karsten Kiilerich is writer, director and one of the founders of A film A/S International Animation, the largest animation studio in Scandinavia. He has worked in a number of roles on long and short animated films and TV series. He has won international prizes that include an Oscar nomination for When life departs (1999). His first long feature film, The Ugly Duckling and me (2006), was made with Michael Hegner (on this year's jury), whose three favourite films will be screended at this year's Cinekid. |
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Aaron Springer (US) |
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Aaron Springer is writer, director and was storyboard artist for the famous American TV series SpongeBob Square Pants as well as The SpongeBob Square Pants Movie (2004). Springer's short animation TV series Periwinkle - Around the world (2004) will be screened in The choice of Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob. For two seasons Springer was writer and storyboard artist for the Emmy Award winning series Samurai Jack. |
In cooperation with, and due to the support of the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film (NIAF) and the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (NFTA).
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