The Adventures of John and John

The Adventures of John and John

10 Jun 2007

This film is still doing the rounds of film festivals, so I’m afraid this is only an extract,

with text all over it...

RCA, 2006
Dur. 00:07:10

This is my graduation film from the Royal College of Art, London, where I did a postgraduate Masters in Animation.

The whole process took 8 months, with 5 months of that being model making, script writing, recording at John Hegley’s house, and some procrastination, and 3 months of actual shooting and editing.

‘The Adventures of John and John’ is the story of two down at heel friends, killing time, bickering, playing games and hoping to become rich and famous using a brain reading machine.

The characters are both about three inches high, have wire armatures and have a limited range of expressions. The flaws in their construction reflect and amplify the flaws in their characters and the comic hopelessness of their situation.

The characters developed from working with John Hegley,a performance poet, on animating a surreal sketch John had performed with Simon Munnery, where one person thinks of a breed of dog and the other person has to guess which one he’s thinking of. This dialogue became the starting point for the script.

The ‘Brain Reading Machine’ gave the opportunity to improvise and combine different animation techniques, as they attempt to ‘produce a dazzling array of cartoons, exciting-police-dramas-like-on-the-TV, and a ‘Proper Music Video’.

To see the Dialogue for ‘The Adventures of John & John’ click here.

& to see the Model Making process, click here.

AWARDS & PRIZES -

Audience Vote, International Screening 3, London International Animation Festival

E-Magicians, Jury Prize and Film Grant from the Fondation
Jean-Luc Lagardère.

Animé Caribe, Best Student Film
Trinidad and Tobago, 2006

McLaren Prize- 3rd Prize for British Animation,
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006

Thames and Hudson Book Prize, 2006,

Passion Pictures Prize. 2005

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