Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Pigeon Impossible

Here is the latest short animation we used in class - it was really great and helped in putting reports, stories, recounts and short dramas together - check out the characters, settings, ideas and sequencing!


This small clip takes place in Washington D.C. outside a sandwich bar. A man walks by Walter Beckett and hands him a brief case with a small computer in it. A pigeon flies up to Walter and wants his donut, so he flicked a small bit of donut onto the ground for the pigeon to go for it. The pigeon wants the biggest bit but the man wont give it to the pigeon, suddenly the pigeon attacks the man so the man threw the donut onto the ground and the pigeon flew onto the brief case and it fell onto the ground with the pigeon stuck inside of it.
The pigeon doesn't know what to do so it starts to press a load of buttons. One of the buttons was shooting out a laser and another button shoots out gunshots. Another button makes the brief case fly. And while the pigeon was flying it was shooting out the gun shots and laser. When the man gets the pigeon to stop with the donut he throws it in the air so the pigeon wold be distracted and looking at the doughnut. The man brushes the pigeon out of the but the doughnut falls and hits the button and the button is set to launch a rocket towards Moscow and blow it up!
The rocket launches and the man flies up to it and tries to fire a few shots at the rocket with the few bullets he has left. So he chooses another setting to a mini-rocket and he is about to fire when the pigeon lands again on the briefcase in front of the mini-rocket, looking for the doughnut.
The man opens the briefcase and the doughnut falls out again down to the street and the pigeon follows it. So back to where the man is about to shoot the mini-rocket. He does and blows up the rocket and saves Moscow and a world war. The man then flies down and lands right beside where the bird is eating the doughnut.
And two seconds later a part of the rocket lands and squashes the bird. Brilliant!
By Sean T.

The Octopus Adventure

Here is another great short film which helped our writing - short stories, film reviews, recount and report writing! You can watch it at the link below but read my report first!

This story takes place in a small village in France where two octopuses lived. They lived in a seafood shop. The two octopuses were in love but one day the female octopus was sold to a tall, skinny man. He owned a van that sold seafood to restaurants. The outside of the van had a logo that showed octopuses being cut and served!
As the man started his van, the other octopus who remained in the tank leapt out and chased the van. The man took off - the chasing octopus scaled the side of the van and moved towards the window. He tried to help the girl octopus out of the box but the man sees him. As the man was trying to grab the male octopus the girl grabs the handbrake sending her and the boy flying out the window and making the man crash!
The man starts the van again and tries to run over the octopuses but they jump from a wall into a pool in a back garden. Now they jump from one pool to another as the man chases after them. They take big leaps from one pool to another. Eventually the man garbs the boy octopus - he thinks he has him. WRONG!!
The octopus grabs on to an electric wire and sits there while the man drives past in his van and falls into the water below the village wall. Now you think it's over. WRONG AGAIN!!
A seagull garbs the boy octopus from the wire and flies away. Now the girl octopus is mad so she pulls the wire back and swings herself towards the seagull. I pity the seagull.

By Jordan D.

Heavenly Appeals

Recently we have been watching short animated films to help our story writing, our report writing and our recount writing. Here you can read about the film 'Heavenly Appeals' and watch it when you click on the link below - it is really great.


This story takes place outside the gates of heaven when a little man comes up from hell to try to make it to heaven. But outside the gates there is a little fat man who chooses who gets in and who doesn't.
The fat angel took the man's appeals case and pretended to read it. Then the angel took out a stamp and stamped 'denied' on the case, then he dropped it back down to hell. The little man was shocked and very sad that he didn't get in.
Then the fat angel started pull the leaver up and down. The little man was going up and down making him smack his head aginst the rock he was on. Suddenly the angel started to choke on a donut and fell of his cloud. The angel tried to fly back up but he was too heavy. He asked the man from hell to pull him up.
The little man helped him up to his cloud. They started to talk to each other for a while. Out of nowhere the angel pushed the man's weight off the rock and he fell with it. But the little man from hell turned into an angel and flew into heaven. Then the fat angel from heaven turned into the fat man from hell.

By Taylor C