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| Hollingworth Histories
- The Battle of Castle Hill Animated by Jordan Warmington, Sarah Parkinson, Georgia Taylor, Aaron Fogarty, Aimee Bennett, Laura Howarth, Tony Taylor, Ben Taylor, Connor Sherwood, Alistair Bland, Brad Gee, Rhiannon Barber, Jake Fairbrother, Melissa Thomas Directed by Laura Howarth Thanks to Roman Tours, Aquablue Music, Dr O'Gorman, Pat Irwin and Buzz Hawkins Produced at Longdendale Community Language College 2008 |
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| The students worked on a movie about the Celts and the Romans. The title chosen by one of our young people is The Battle of Castle Hill (a local landmark). The story is about the battle between the last three trbes of Celts (the Brigantes) and the Romans, who were based at Melandra Castle. The script is in Latin and Gaelic, with subtitles in English. |  |
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 We
researched
the
project by getting in the services of Roman Tours, an organisation
attached to
Chester Museum. Two 'soldiers'
- one a Celt, one a Roman - arrived
to give a two-hour talk
and
demonstration of weaponry. They also discussed the respective way of
life and battle tactics of the two civilisations. This included the
habit of the Celts of including men, women and children in their
fighting forces, the very small children being put into ditches and
told to stab at the enemies' feet. This event was
greatly
enjoyed by the young people and helped a lot with storyboarding and
character
building. |
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| Club
members also
researched from books on local and Roman history and from the internet.
Ideas were discussed and storyboarded and it was decided to show the
Romans, with their engineering and precision battle plans, by using
screws and bolts and washers to make their armour. The club members
decided to depict the Celts by using as many natural materials as
possible - pebbles for bodies and grass for hair to depict their less
organised, more natural way of life. |
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 During
the autumn 2008 half-term we engaged Aquablue
Music
to make the musical
soundtrack, with our young people creating atmospheric music based on
their
storyboard. Working with the storyboard Mr Waters helped club members
to produce evocative music on drums, with brass instruments and through
electronic means.During our after-school sessions we have discovered a way to apply drawn animation onto our stopframe animation. The experiments with this were done by our young people. It means we can build the figures but draw in showers of arrows, blood etc. We arranged a trip to an established animation company, Chapman Entertainment. |
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| "This animation was lots of fun and I learned lots of info on the Celts and Romans like that enemies would help each other in the winter" - Jordan |
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tacky
films animations are QuickTime
movies. You can download the QuickTime Player - for Mac or Windows - free here. |
