Aardman and Tate Collaborative FIlm
Submitted by frank grimshaw on Tue, 2009-10-20 09:57. Film 
The Tate galleries are to team up with Aardman and children from all across the UK to create a collaborative feature film.
Schools will be encouraged to contribute original characters, stories, drawings and sound effects, and a team from Aardman will stitch the material together into a feature-length animated film to be released in early 2012.
A trial workshop in Bristol had encouraged children to "send us your burps", said Aardman's co-founder, David Sproxton, "That was very popular." He added: "We will look at every child's work – this is open to what children want to make of it."
A storyline will be established with the help of children, and a professional scriptwriter will create a script "two-thirds complete, with holes in it to which children can contribute ideas," said Sproxton.
Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of Tate, said: "This is a unique and ambitious project which will attempt to work creatively with a large number of children, building on what we already do in our education programmes with young children but also building on our partnerships with museums across the country. We will combine the extraordinary potential for children's creativity with the best professionals in the field to create something really remarkable and unusual."
The Tate galleries are to team up with Aardman and children from all across the UK to create a collaborative feature film.
Schools will be encouraged to contribute original characters, stories, drawings and sound effects, and a team from Aardman will stitch the material together into a feature-length animated film to be released in early 2012.
A trial workshop in Bristol had encouraged children to "send us your burps", said Aardman's co-founder, David Sproxton, "That was very popular." He added: "We will look at every child's work – this is open to what children want to make of it."
A storyline will be established with the help of children, and a professional scriptwriter will create a script "two-thirds complete, with holes in it to which children can contribute ideas," said Sproxton.
Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of Tate, said: "This is a unique and ambitious project which will attempt to work creatively with a large number of children, building on what we already do in our education programmes with young children but also building on our partnerships with museums across the country. We will combine the extraordinary potential for children's creativity with the best professionals in the field to create something really remarkable and unusual."
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