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| April Showers - 2000 When a little girl's mother won't let her play in the rain, her raincoat comes to life and takes her on a rambunctious puddle-splashing adventure!
I made this film by first drawing the characters on a textured colored paper, coloring them with Prismacolor pencils. Then I cut each figure out and pasted it on a clear cel. The final set up included the background, 2-3 character cels and in most scenes a layer on rain and splashes. I shot the film on 16mm film with an Oxberry animation camera over the course of 48 hours (with very little sleep and large quantities of tea). The music for the film was then composed by fellow Dartmouth student, Amelia Thrall.
Awards: 2nd Prize, Student Animation, ASIFA-East Animation Festival, New York
Screenings: 2002 - East Lansing Children's Animation Festival National Gallery of Art, Children's Film Program 2001 - Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2000 - PISAF Animation Festival, Puchon,Korea Auburn International Film Festival, Australia
Production Info: Title: April Showers Director: Corrie Francis Original Music: Amelia Thrall Running Time: 5 min Screening Format: 16mm/1.33/Color/Optical Mono Sound Copyright 2000 Corrie Francis
Distribution: Corrie Francis
Bio: Corrie Francis is a freelance animator and photographer based in South Lake Tahoe, California. A classically trained animator with an MFA from University of Southern California in Los Angeles, she has recently shifted her focus to documentary and is exploring how drawn images can imaginatively compliment documented reality. Corrie’s animation emphasizes the integration of digital and traditional mediums and a dialogue between technique and mediums. She has worked with sand, paint on glass, cut-outs and hand-drawn mediums. She recently spent 15 months in New Zealand as a Fulbright Fellow while working on her 5th film, Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand and enjoys wandering in and out of the world’s beautiful landscapes as she creates her films. |
