PZ-05 Cartoons studio Chaika

The volunteers will have a lot of work helping children with making clay figures which ultimately become the characters of the clay cartoons; developing English subtitles for the finished movies in order to take part in the international festivals; and speaking plenty of English with the participating children and teenagers. All these will be done five or six times a week, for 2.5 hours every day. The entire process will be in English. The result of the effort will be a clay cartoon based on a story from the volunteer’s home country – this may be a myth, a fairy tale, or anything else. The group itself chooses the story for the cartoon and writes the script for their movie. On the first lesson, the children and volunteers will discuss how they are going to make a cartoon and set up a storyboard. The camp will end up with the film premiere and a party. During the time in the camp, the volunteers will also shoot a documentary about this claymation project. Both the documentary and the cartoon may be sent to various animation movie festivals.