Documentary Script

Documentary Script

Scene 1 - Introduction to James. Brief about his life and career.
(in conference room in the Virgin Active gym)

Scene 2 - Go onto further detail about is career and his build up and training to his job as a PT.
(film James with a client doing some training in the gym)

Scene 3 - Talk about the charity event James took place in recently.
(we will also do a before and after talk with James about the charity event he took part in)

Scene 4 - Speak with James about how and if his blindness has effected him in any major 

CANCER TRUST POSTER

Evaluation of stop motion formats

Clay animation or claymation is one of several forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay.

All traditional animation is produced in a similar fashion, whether done through cel animation or stop motion. Each frame, or still picture, is recorded on film or digital media and then played back in rapid succession. Chicken run was produced in the year 2000 usuing the claymation techniques. the film was produced by the Aardan Animations Compnay. it was also made in the same studio as Wallace and Gromit.

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs.


Charlie and Lola are characters created by author and illustrator Lauren Child They were introduced in a series of picture books and later adapted as animated television stars. Although their main audience is children three to seven years old, the books and shows are popular with adults for their humorous storylines. Lola is an energetic, imaginative little girl; Charlie is a patient and kind older brother who has his work cut out (but is always willing) to help Lola learn and grow.


In the death star canteen animation the lego characters and already made through factory techniques. this is an easier way to create animationas it is a lot more easier to move the parts of the lego character. the target audience would be young people who are not only interested in lego but also interested in star wars. if the creator's used a different filming technique's then the characters wouldn't move, therefore using an animation allows them to take pictures of the characters then move the characters then take another picture. The target audience for this type of animation would be young people depending on who the film was going to be shown to and what the film was going to have in it because with lego you can make a lot of different things. Stop motion would have to be used here because otherwise there is no way of making the ego characters move, so the only easy and simple way of doing it would be to take pictures of the characters and then move them slightly and then take more pictures and then repeating the process. The way in which the animators of this type if animation format go about animating lego is very similar to when other people use stop motion.


In the kindle advert people and objects are already created the produces don't have to make them out of clay or any other time of material. the target audience for this advert is really anyone who is interested in reading or interested in technology, this will range from young people to old people there isn't a specific age that like/enjoy reading. stop motion is perfect to use as it allows the objects to move in a certain direction at the same time, where as if you used other ways to film this it wouldn't work and the objects and people would be in sync. The target audience for this animation isn't really specific as anything can be made like this, there is nothing that makes appeal to a certain age group. Stop motion would have to be used because it has a lot of different things have to moved in a certain direction at the same time so a normal way of filming would not really work because the objects would have to be moved by people and therefore you would see them doing this. 

Development in Animation

Pioneers:Joseph Plateau (phenakitoscope)
Animation started in 1832 when a famous pioneer Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the spindle viewer. This was the first invention to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To show this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. This was a very clever and useful invention and has managed to get us where we are today with animation.

William HornerWilliam George Horner was a British mathematician; he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and school keper, proficient in classics as well as mathematics who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on opics. He invented the Zoetrope however it didn't become popular until the 1860's. The zoetrope worked on the same principles as the phenakitoscope by using rotating disks with repeating drawn images in smallincrements of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other.

Emile Reynaud (praxinoscope)

Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French science teacher, responsible for the first projected animated cartoon films. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Theater Optique in December 1888, and on 28 October 1892 he projected the first animated film in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris. This film is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. The Praxinoscope. incorporates the principle of William George Horner's Zoetrope that used a removable strip printed in a series of 12 drawings that makeup a cyclical movement. This strip is placed inside a drum rotating about an axis used as a base. Émile Reynaud added into the drum, on the same axis, a cylinder on which are arranged 12 facets of mirrors that each reflect a drawing. A candlestick with a lampshade is placed on top of it. This allows the animation to be seen by several people at onetime. 

Edward MuybridgeEadweard 

James Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

Lumier brothers

Auguste and Louis Lumiere were the earliest filmmakers in history. Auguste Louis Lumiere developed a camer that was used to create the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895. The showing of approximately ten s hort films lasting only twenty minutes in total. It was held in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris and would be the very first public demonstration of their device they called the Cinematograph which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.

George Pal

George Pal born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, was very well known for his, principally associated with the science fiction genre. He worked at UFA Studios in Berlin where he became head of the cartoon department. Then, he set up his own film studio elsewhere in Berlin. His credentials attracted orders from companies for animated advertising. Instead of the cartoon approach George developed his own take on making inanimate objects move, even dance, using the still evolving art of stop-motion photography. Some examples of Advertisements he did was for instance, Overstolz cigarettes, outfitted with faces, arms, and legs, were shown on theater screens strutting and singing as if drawn by a cartoonist. These "puppets" without strings would later evolve into animated characters made of wood who would have names and star in their own films.
 George played a massive part in developing animation. He has turned drawn animation and made it look as though its real live. By him creating this has developed animation to where it is today. Without George we wouldn’t have the high tech animation that we have now days. He  an inspiration who inspired many people; his work triggered a new ear in animation.

Dickson

Dickson developed a viewer for the films, which was called a kinetoscope. You can see from the picture that one person could only use it at a time. This did this by looking through the viewing piece at the top of the box. The film ran backwards and forwards round a series of pulleys, and was held as a continuous loop, so that it could be watched over and over again without rewinding. This was a massive jump in technoldy as it was a lot more high tech and allowed people to start viewing longer more advanced animation clips.

Thompson Edison
Thomas Edison was the first person successfully to demonstrate moving pictures to the public. He designed this camera that was called the kinetograph. It used rolls of film about 35mm wide, and these film strips carried rows of holes down the sides to allow the film to be pulled through the camera at an even rate. These rows of holes still appear on both cinema film and films for use in ordinary cameras.





Developers


Wills O’Brien


Willis Harold O'Brien was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He started with introducing his models in animated shorts and in the original dinosaur movie. In the 1925's The Lost World, O'Brien gave American filmmakers new latitude in creatingmonstrous fantasies. He was remembered as the father of "stop-motion" animation. By him inventing and introduction animation into films inspired many animators who have now invent very cleaver was to introduce animation into films.




Ray Harryhausen


Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920) is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as Dynamation. Ray made his name by developing fantastic stories and creatures based on legends and mythology and creating a unique genre of fan tasty films during the 1950s, 60s and 70s that took into the movie-making world. His work hit the public, by storm. Someone one who was inspired by Raymond was Ray Harryhausen, he inspired him, as he was the beacon in today’s fantasy filmmakers as the creator who inspired them and made the impossible possible. Without Raymond we wouldn’t have the in-depth model making and ideas that inspired many animators. He took model making to the next level. He was an inspiration, without his work we wouldn’t have the animation that we have today. He designed some intriguing models, that was way out of some peoples leagues. His models was so in-depth they look so surreal which benefited the films as they made them more believable.

StopMotion Presentation

Proposed Questions

Proposed Questions

How did you cope when you knew you had permanently lost sight in your eyes?

Was it difficult to cope with sudden blindness?

How hard was it to find a job? And how quickly was you employed?

People say you are the most sighted blind person they know- what does this mean?

Do you have any advice for though who may be struggling against a similar affliction?

With being a personal trainer, do you have any limitations?

Interview Research

Interview research 

I was inspired to interview James O'Driscoll after reading about his 1 in 10 million injury. i was inspired by his story and was fascinated to find out more. this was the first interview i found-

How did you lose your sight?
I lost my sight 13 years ago, when I was 26 years old. I went to bed one night and when I woke up I couldn’t see out of my right eye. I lost sight in my left eye six weeks later. I went to see my doctor who didn’t know what it was, so they sent me to hospital where I had more tests, but they still didn’t know what it was.

I spent two weeks at King's College hospital which was pretty horrific. I was the youngest one in there by about 25 years and it was very, very scary; a lot of crying at night, people falling out of bed, people walking around and bumping into things. A specialist from America came over and told me that I had Leber's Optic Neuropathy and that there was nothing they could do. I just didn’t get it at the start and asked him about wearing glasses – I couldn’t get my head around the fact that I could go from being fine to having no sight in six weeks.

It must have been an incredibly difficult time for you.
Yes, it was a bit of a disaster. I was self-employed so I lost my job and the council filled in the wrong forms for me so my flat was repossessed and I had to move into a council flat; all this happened in the space of about three months. It took me about four years to come to terms with losing my sight. It was hard because I didn’t have anyone to blame – it wasn’t anyone’s fault, it just happened. The disease is incredibly rare; the odds of getting it are one in 20 million.

How did you decide to enter the fitness industry? 
I always enjoyed being fit but after I became blind I had four years of what I call 'my wilderness years' – I smoked, drank and ate too much. I put on a lot of weight and didn’t care about my appearance. Then I got an acting job and needed to get in better shape, so I went to the gym with my nephew and realised that I missed being fit.

Having made the decision, what did you do next? 
I went to a fitness association and they basically said that there was no way that I would be able to work in the fitness industry. I believed that I could do it and a charity called London Disability Forum got in touch and offered to fund me to complete the Level 2 Fitness Instructor course. I still had to convince a hell of a lot of people though.

Practically, how do you do things such as check on good technique?
I have an access worker, who effectively acts as my eyes. They have an idea about different movements but they’re not actually qualified. I ask them certain questions such as, "are their knees going over their toes?" and through a series of questions I can work out what their technique is like. I’ve built up a really good rapport and friendship with a lot of my clients.

You seem to be very passionate about being a PT? 
Yeah, I really enjoy being active, interacting with people and helping them with their different goals – be that losing weight to get into a wedding dress, or just to feel better about themselves.

What are the main problems you’ve faced?
People judging me before they’ve even met me. Unfortunately, I have met a lot of ignorant people. A PT once said that if I was training in a club then it wouldn’t work because clients would feel they had been short-changed having a disabled person training them. It's other people’s interpretations of you – there were some people at a gym where I worked that I had to train before they accepted I was good.

What are your ambitions for the future?
People say that I should become a life coach and it’s something I’m thinking about. When I speak to clients and they find out some of the things that I have gone through and experienced it can help them to understand that, perhaps, some of their problems are easier to deal with than they might think.

My favorite question from this interview the one about 'how he lost his sight' this question is very appealing yet can come across very emotion in some ways. 

I even read, how exercise changes his life. james became very depressed. the only way he could over  come this depression was by training, by him constantly training inspired james to become a fitness coach. this to me just shows his sheer dedication to getting his life on track after loosing his sight. it also shows just how strong james is not only physically but mentally. 

other examples of interviews that inspired me was:

http://www.cyq.org.uk/englands-first-blind-fitness-instructor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1_Cj_TjxBU

James O’Driscoll is the first blind person in England to become a qualified fitness instructor.

On qualifying, the 37-year-old from Bromley in Kent said: “Becoming physically active changed my life, taking me from a place of depression to happiness.

“Now I’m seeking to give as many other people the opportunity to experience the life-enhancing benefits of getting and keeping fit.”

James enrolled and trained alongside non-disabled students on a CYQ (Central YMCA Qualifications) Level 2 course, leading to an internationally recognised fitness instructor qualification. CYQ are the UK’s leading health and fitness awarding body.

As well as setting a solo precedent, James’ achievement marks a first for the fitness industry and leads the way for future blind students to become fitness instructors and on training courses that could be fully inclusive (open to applicants with and without disabilities).

Eleven years ago, James was a vivacious young man with a solid career in construction and a bustling social life. All that changed overnight when one morning he woke up and found he couldn’t see out of one eye. Six weeks later, James had lost complete sight in both eyes, finding out that he had a rare form of Optic Neuropathy, a condition affecting around 1 in 20 million people.

“I can’t explain the huge emotional and mental, as well as physical impact this had on me,” says James. “I ended up losing my girlfriend, flat and job and gradually became more and more depressed, turning into a recluse and living a life comprising of sitting indoors, smoking, drinking and eating take-aways.”

It took a couple years for James to come to terms with his condition, but once he did, his life began to move on quickly. He learnt Braille in three months, became an avid reader, and joined the gym.

“As I got fitter and more physically active, I regained my interest in life and wanted to do something meaningful.” James became a classroom assistant for children attending a local education college for students with a visual impairment. He developed his role by becoming a mentor and volunteer fitness advisor, passionately encouraging kids and adults coming to the college to use the gym after school hours. His success with the students (the gym at the college had never been busier!) ignited James’ calling to a career in fitness.

Trainees undertake the same training

The fitness instructor course James enrolled on was held at London South Bank University (LSBU).

James was expected to fulfil the same criteria for the theory and practical components of the course.  He received additional support (funded by The London Sports Forum for Disabled People and LSBU) by way of the provision of audio translation, an assistant for practical sessions (see below) and care for his guide dog while he was in practical sessions.

The Eyes of the Instructor

James delivers fitness instruction to a client a using a model called ‘The Eyes of the Instructor’. An assistant acts as James’ ‘eyes’, enabling him to gain information about the clients’ physical safety, exercise performance and technique by verbal comment, questioning and prompting. The Assistant does not offer information freely, but is directed by James who leads the session.

James will have the support of an Eyes Assistant once he takes up employment as a Fitness Instructor in his local health club.

“Now I view losing my sight as the best thing that ever happened to me. It made me rethink the way I lived, thought and behaved. It developed me mentally and emotionally and has brought me to a place where I can help others get motivated to lead a more active life.”

I feel that by reading an previous interview which James had previously done really helped me to think of some good questions in which I would be able to put into my own interview. And by seeing the amount of depth James goes into, I knew that our interview would flow nicely. I also felt that by watching some interviews online helped me to see how James reacts with some questions he may be asked, and by this I saw that James was fine and more than happy to answer any questions he was giving, this also made me realize how interesting our interview would be and how listening to a story as tragic as this would inspire some people.