Computer Animation Arts

Congratulations to CGAA Year 2 student, Natalie Urwin, whose short live action thriller  Blind (2012) won in its category at the Flipside Youth Film Festival 2013. And now some words from our winner... "Blind was made at the BFI in the summer of 2012 as part of the  D.I.Y. Thriller Film Fortnight Hitchcock special .   Our team consisted of 6 members thrown together at random.  Most of us had no experience at all of making a film, but we just went for it, learning how to make an original short suspense thiller on a low-to-no budget as we went along.  Blind originated out of three main things; Charlie, our director, suggested basing the film around a blind character, Mairéad wrote the script, and I created the storyboard - overnight! - in which everything was in black until objects were heard or felt,  communicating the experience of  a blind person’s point of view.  It was a brilliant experience - thanks to our mentor ...