Student Voices, Student VisionAudio tracks from Falmouth i

Write project.Students talk about how they

write.

An account of an animation employability project funded by ALDHE (Association of Learning Developers in HE) which developed four short animations. These were chosen from animatics developed in first year module.

Visual track -animations and sound developed by Animation

and Visual Effects students, Sheffield Hallam.

Participants

Liam Hall & Ben Johnston

Dan Hodgson

Hayley Humphreys

Carl Jones

Oksana Fedotova (ACES)

Cathy Malone (QESS)

Process & Development

Process & Development In our module Researching Creative

Industries (level 4) we were approached with an external brief to produce an animatic regarding writing process.

We selected an audio from a series of pre-existing tracks, from the Falmouth i Write project .

Over a series of weeks within the module we adapted and refined our animatics to the client’s specifications.

Four were then commissioned to be taken forward for completion.

These were presented at ALDHE conference 2013 by our classmates.

Our Experiences ‘We learned about the

process of working in a professional context’

‘A head start in the industry will prove invaluable’

‘A great opportunity to experience the process of animation from beginning to end’

‘It taught me to be willing to be flexible with ideas’

Benefits to the University From central resource writing perspective the notion of student ‘voice’ is relevant here. Student voice meaning both “having authority to speak and wield influence” and “resonant with authenticity” that we recognise (Elbow 2000:206).

From audio tracks ‘writing’ emerges as

Recursive, messy, individual process

Driven by meaning

Central to university experience – an opportunity, “what you’re here for”

Interweaved with laughter

Adding a visual track confirms and strengthens these messages of

Individual diversity

Adds a layer of meaning

Literally brings the words to life

Full of visual puns and jokes

This addition of visual track has an authenticity and resonance that amplifies the authority of the student voice in learning.

SHU animations 2013 ALDHE How do you plan your writing?

https://exchange.shu.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=E9siVIF5xUizWBMILvGjpCQakB-cP9AIxWpRnDzItP-gLTk5hS-3t8ukgg3OWgZXo_xK2Pwn6pA.&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dropbox.com%2fs%2fz8e5bl729itd9tr%2fHow%2520Do%2520You%2520Plan%2520Your%2520Writing.mp4

How do you write? By hand or on the computer?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9bk5prwpoomjdp/Render_10.mov

How do you start your writing?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvjo7dummmwqmun/Carl%20Animation.mov

Animations; The Compilation

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xn9nsgmbv5ochm3/Student%20View%27s%20on%20Writing%20Process%202.mp4

For a student authored account of this project please click the link below to read their reflections in an internal student journal.

http://research.shu.ac.uk/aces/enquiry/index.php/enquiry/index