This is a still from a new "chalk animated" music video directed by Australians Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg. The video illustrates "Autumn Story" from The Bowery, the debut album of the Australian indie band Firekites.
To create the video, which took about six months, Schreiber and Kornenberg drew nearly 2000 images on a series of blackboards. As you watch the video, simple line drawings of humans, birds, fish, and more keep morphing into new images as they magically leap from one chalk board to the next, leaving behind ghosts of their own partially erased images. As the video ends, the camera draws away from the images to reveal a small circle of mismatched blackboards in an ordinary little room.
As mentioned in previous posts, a Smartboard is a wonderful teaching tool. But this video makes a case for blackboards and messy chalk in the classroom, or perhaps along a school yard wall. The janitors may not like the dust, but I remember how much I liked drawing on big blackboards as a kid. They just called out to me to pick up some chalk and make art. Smartboards really don't.
To see "Autumn Story" follow this link:
irekites - AUTUMN STORY - Chalk animated music video directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg.
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