Picture Books
We want you to help us tell a story. Picture Books brings together as collaborative storytellers the residents of a town or village and makes a film of it. A Moving Picture Book – a communal Jackanory on film, if you will. The process begins with the selection of a book – a novella, children’s book, or short story. Once selected, the story is broken up into segments of a few sentences, and then everyone in the town is invited to grab a segment and go. People can submit their own film version of the lines, being as creative as they wish to be, or they can ask us to film their contribution. They can animate the lines, set them to music and sing them, mime them with added subtitles, paint them on a wall…however it’s done, the end result is a fantastic story told to camera, to be played again and again. Final stage: we get the largest hall we can find and play the book to the people who have made it (and all their friends and family). The first Picture Book will take place in Lewes and the featured book is The Thirteen Clocks, a story for children by the famous American humorist, James Thurber. We also hope to take the project to other towns and villages in this region. This project is being developed in partnership with Lewes Live Literature. Keep an eye out here, or in local newspapers, as to when and how you might become one of out storytellers.
We want you to help us tell a story. Picture Books brings together as collaborative storytellers the residents of a town or village and makes a film of it. A Moving Picture Book – a communal Jackanory on film, if you will. The process begins with the selection of a book – a novella, children’s book, or short story. Once selected, the story is broken up into segments of a few sentences, and then everyone in the town is invited to grab a segment and go. People can submit their own film version of the lines, being as creative as they wish to be, or they can ask us to film their contribution. They can animate the lines, set them to music and sing them, mime them with added subtitles, paint them on a wall…however it’s done, the end result is a fantastic story told to camera, to be played again and again. Final stage: we get the largest hall we can find and play the book to the people who have made it (and all their friends and family). The first Picture Book will take place in Lewes and the featured book is The Thirteen Clocks, a story for children by the famous American humorist, James Thurber. We also hope to take the project to other towns and villages in this region. This project is being developed in partnership with Lewes Live Literature. Keep an eye out here, or in local newspapers, as to when and how you might become one of out storytellers.