2008 Woodie Awards
Students to Produce Animated Film
Aaron Castrejon
Issue date: 2/9/05 Section: Life
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From the creative minds of Citrus College students, a movie that will blow you away is coming to a theater near you-well, maybe not. But the latest project initiated by the drafting students is certainly an endeavor of feature-length proportions.
Last year, drafting and animation students of professor Richard Fernandes, a Citrus professor for 12 years, participated in creating the Career Mobile which was the successful display of the talents featured by Citrus' vocational education program. As a follow up, Fernandes thought of ways to get the students involved in another hands-on project. And he did.
"I told the students that we were going to produce a 54-minute animation, which is a full-length feature," Fernandez said.
For the last two weeks of fall 2004, students brain stormed various story ideas.
Now in spring 2005, the students are developing a story and writing the rough draft.
About 22 students are working on the project.
"Many of the students will be doing this on their own time and not as a class," Fernandes said. "This is something they are that excited about."
Minser Niazi, Steve Jarvie and Claudia Razo are the three main students writers. Jarvie, a 21 year old drafting major, Said that the storyboarding process will begin with rough sketches of how the action will play out on screen: what backgrounds will be used, how long the scenes will be, and what characters will be in which shot. That, said Jarvie, is a long process.
"After a while you eat, sleep and breathe your project. It's like you have tunnel vision," Jarvie explained.
"I'd sit down after I get home from work at night, work on my computer and when I'd look outside there would be daylight. The time just goes by," he said.
After two weeks of fine-tuning by the advanced drafting and animation classes, the script is to be presented to students in advanced English classes to help finalize the story.
"This semester is devoted to planning. The next two semesters are devoted to production and it will be heavy-duty production," Fernandes said. " Ben Bollinger, dean of fine and performing arts, has volunteered for the fine arts to help out. Dr. Michael Viera, president of Citrus College, is excited about it, and so is the English department. Everybody I talked to is excited about it."
Last year, drafting and animation students of professor Richard Fernandes, a Citrus professor for 12 years, participated in creating the Career Mobile which was the successful display of the talents featured by Citrus' vocational education program. As a follow up, Fernandes thought of ways to get the students involved in another hands-on project. And he did.
"I told the students that we were going to produce a 54-minute animation, which is a full-length feature," Fernandez said.
For the last two weeks of fall 2004, students brain stormed various story ideas.
Now in spring 2005, the students are developing a story and writing the rough draft.
About 22 students are working on the project.
"Many of the students will be doing this on their own time and not as a class," Fernandes said. "This is something they are that excited about."
Minser Niazi, Steve Jarvie and Claudia Razo are the three main students writers. Jarvie, a 21 year old drafting major, Said that the storyboarding process will begin with rough sketches of how the action will play out on screen: what backgrounds will be used, how long the scenes will be, and what characters will be in which shot. That, said Jarvie, is a long process.
"After a while you eat, sleep and breathe your project. It's like you have tunnel vision," Jarvie explained.
"I'd sit down after I get home from work at night, work on my computer and when I'd look outside there would be daylight. The time just goes by," he said.
After two weeks of fine-tuning by the advanced drafting and animation classes, the script is to be presented to students in advanced English classes to help finalize the story.
"This semester is devoted to planning. The next two semesters are devoted to production and it will be heavy-duty production," Fernandes said. " Ben Bollinger, dean of fine and performing arts, has volunteered for the fine arts to help out. Dr. Michael Viera, president of Citrus College, is excited about it, and so is the English department. Everybody I talked to is excited about it."