So today was, once again, a very enjoyable session despite both Lucy and I having interesting starts to the day, as always, when the gang troop in, one's personal traumas dissipate away like fading cigarette smoke.
What I love about being at YDC is that the room is constantly transforming from someone's living room to a theatre storage space with a slow dripping trail of unknown individuals who either find the walls/carpet extremely interesting, or just have an inability to say 'excuse me'.
Either way, they provide momentary entertainment.
Lucy's foray into animation went down a storm. The group are very relaxed with each other now, and were all extremely interested in Lucy's presentation without having to spend any time catching up on chit chat.
The beautiful simplicity of the style of animation allowed everyone to throw themselves into trying things out without any concerns whatsoever. I would like to think this is because I had brought some halva with me (bear with me here, there is a tenuous link) which I tried to persuade everyone to try, unsuccessfully, thus filling the spot of 'things that will challenge me today'. Consequently, the animation looked like a walk in the park.
It was an absolute delight to see everyone in the group enjoying creating a small scene to animate, and wonderful to see the results. Almost instantaneous gratification. Perfect for that first foray.
Katy joined Edgar today, and they giggled like naughty children whilst setting up Edgar's film.
This was very complimentary to the group's feel, and I think has allowed the group to feel more relaxed with Edgar, especially. To the extent that, when the conversation turned to 'what I looked like as a child', and photo's came out, everyone was genuinely interested in Edgar's very cute photo.
The relaxed atmosphere continued through our light lunch and onto the finish with a wonderful finale of watching the animations which had been filmed, which were an absolute delight. The group were, rightly so, very proud of themselves.
We have also sent out the three flip cameras we had, with Steph and Liam, Kirsty and Karina, and Amy. Their brief; to film and comment on things they love and loathe about their street.
And to finish, we are having the most enjoyable of times, with everyone becoming more vocal about wanting to spend a longer period of time on the project. I am wondering whether we need to look at the timetable for after Easter, and see whether we can have less sessions, but longer, or some other combination?
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