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CAA Cinema: Coming Soon!

Animation is clearly in rude health, ladies and gentlemen!  A round-up of what's coming to your multiplex soon...

CAA The Supplement: Making of Hotel Transylvania 2 Animation

I've always found the animation in Hotel Transylvania very charming, full of life and character. This making of video shows how far they have to push the characters and rigs to make such interesting poses and what it's like working with Genndy Tartakovsky, who is best known for creating cartoons such as Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack.

CAA Cinema: 'Make 'Em Laugh' / Singing In The Rain (1952)

A masterclass in physical comedy from Donald O'Connor from the 1952 musical, Singing In The Rain .   In terms of animation reference alone, this is gold-dust; watch O'Connor's facial expressions - and the comic timing... Breathtaking stuff.  Take a moment to enjoy it.

FAO CAA Yr 1 & CAA Yr 2: Extras Required For A Film!

This is a shout-out for our first years and second years who we know will be available on the morning of Tuesday, 9th February between 11am and 2pm...  Today, I was approached by a final year Television Production student who is shooting a scene for their final film in Lecture Theatre 1 on 09/02/16.  They have a cast of actors, but they need the lecture theatre to be nice and busy with students.  Apparently they also need a boring bespectacled lecturer to bore the pants off everyone as part of the scene - so I can't think why they came in search for me... I did offer to jump through a window, set myself on fire or sing Let It Go while on roller-skates, but it turns out just being old is enough. Short version is this: can you make yourselves available to take part in a film shoot - and can you get the message out to any students on other courses who might be similarly available to take part.  They'll want us to congregate in the refectory at about 11.15am, ...

CAA Cinema: Composition In Storytelling

A fascinating users-guide to the importance of composition in relation to storytelling in film.  Watch and learn!

CAA One-A-Day: Amazing: Spaceship

Harking back to the early days of animation, a lovely exercise in re-tooling something retro...

CAA Cinema: Hitchcock Techniques

Following today's screening of Hitchcock's strange and wonderful The Birds, and last week's Psycho , enjoy these short, smart synopses of the techniques of cinema's 'Master of Suspense'.  Enjoy!