EHC Animation - resales

It has been a busy couple of months preparing for the resale of the EHC animation, and currently I'm at work putting the finishing touches on Barking & Dagenham's version - with Oxfordshire County Council to follow. Prior to working on the resales themselves, it was necessary to bring the original animation up to scratch with the latest style! This included adding in the eyes and neatening up the designs. You can find out more about the EHC Animation here.

Information Animations for NCC

I've recently completed my third animation for Nottinghamshire County Council, which helps to explain the "Disabled Children's Access to Child Care" (DCATCH) service to children and young adults with special needs and learning disabilities. It has been important to keep this animation cohesive with the others for NCC, so it feels like they are all coming from the same place and are designed for a similar audience. Furthermore, the animations will all feature on the same webpage - so its good that they will fit well together.

I've found in the process of creating these 3 animations, certain elements of design techniques and animation transitions etc. have become more formalised; so I will be revisiting the EHC animation, to bring it up to the same high standard as the more recent versions (and of course - adding in eyes!)

To view the animations, please check out my website (click here.) I have posted some screenshots of the animations below to give you some idea of the content and style.

EHC Animation

Short Breaks Animation

DCATCH Animation

Filming interviews for NCC

In April, I spent a day filming at a special school in Nottinghamshire. This was followed by several weeks editing; the product of which was a series of 5 videos that capture the views of professionals, parents and students who have all been involved with trialling out the Wiki - technology that has been developed by the RIX centre at the University of East London, which enables multimedia advocacy amongst those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The day went well, and we managed to find some good quiet spaces within the school to shoot the film.

The video below captures views from teachers who work with young people with SEND, providing their informed reviews of the Wiki, and the effect that it has had at the school. Other videos in the series reflect the views from students and parents. Additionally, there's a compilation video which features segments of everyone. These other videos can be viewed on Nottinghamshire's wiki pilot page here.

Animations for Nottinghamshire County Council

Just a quick update..

I've recently completed my second animation for Nottinghamshire County Council. This time, for the Children's Disability Service, explaining their Short Breaks and Personalisation service. This can be found on my website here. I'm pleased to say that it has gone really well and that I'm now working on the next animation for the Children's Disability Service.

Alongside this, I will be completing a couple of animations for Dr Clare Bale explaining a Pathway for children and young people with concerning behaviours. Furthermore, I was recently asked to film Nottinghamshire County Councils SEND Conference in February, so the next step for this will be editing and exporting as videos of keynote speakers and vox pop interviews. It's great to be busy!