Team Spoof from Methodist Girls’ School are back again for N.E.mation! Formerly known as Perspectives who brought you this clip…
Now that they are in Sec 3, they didn’t want to miss their last chance to come back as a team, so they submitted their story idea for this year’s N.E.mation! and worked very hard to get their story idea fine-tuned to fight for their spot in the top 10.
Being back for the second time, they managed to survive the qualifying week with ease and were more prepared and confident during their SuperPitch!. However, after they got selected for the top 10, they were asked to push beyond their previous year’s limit. Not wanting to just do what they’ve done last season, the four girls, Eleanor, Jean, Carmen and Elizabeth, took up the challenge and went ahead with a mix of rotoscoping and stopmotion animation.
Having gone through the production week with all the ten teams, this is one of the most challenging and time consuming production amongst the other finalists. And because of their determination to give their best, they have been pushing and working every minute they can get to get their production going.
Let me briefly bring you through their production process…
First the team had to film their footage and then do the frame-by-frame rotoscoping of the characters moving in their animation.
Then each frame of the moving character is being printed out, pasted onto cardboards and then cut out one by one. When animating them one at each frame, it will create a moving 2D figure on the set which they’d handmade from lots of cutting and drawing.
The above is from one of the scenes in their animation. Yes, these girls made those tiny vehicles and life-like models of the Singapore cityscape!
They even constructed a scene from olden days Singapore.
Not only were they able to bring you the past, they also brought you the future! They have got the currently still building-in-progress IR, The Marina Bay Sands, up on their set! Nice right?
This brief rundown of their production is no way near the actual work these girls have gone through. If you were there to see for yourself, the mess at their workspace and the amount of work they had to do, you will surely be very impressed.
As they have all been busy producing their work, they had little time to update their facebook page and rally for friends to support them. So if you like what you see so far, go support them on facebook now! Not only that, but VOTE for them!!
Tags: Methodist Girls' School, Perspectives, Spoof
