Tagtool

Some will remember my first experiences of holding a Tagtool Workshop for kids at the Viennese youth center Juvivo15 some month ago. My goal was to create a stop-trick animation with the kids, but it turned out to take too long a time in a setting like this and we couldn’t finish the video.

This time we kept the storyboard of the kids, but recorded the creation and animation of the drawings with a video camera. So the kids could work fluently and integrate spontaneous ideas of orchestration. Afterwards I cut the recordings to a video, that I see as my first reward in my attempt to develop concepts of Tagtool workshops for kids.

“When zwei Herzen schlagen” (“When two hearts beat”) is an intercultural love story between the Turkish boy Abdul Kadir and the Austrian girl Doris Meier. When Abdul asks Doris to marry her, she worries about her father, who expects his son-in-law to be rich and wealthy. So Abdul takes part at a fitness competition with a price money of 10.000 euro. Despite of hard training he doesn’t win the money, and that makes him very sad. But fortunately Doris’ father acknowledges his efforts and gives his blessings for the marriage – happy end!

Thanks to the young creators (story and drawings): Jadranka, Zorica, Nataša, Muhammed, Resul, Ahmet, Duran, Enes, Enes G., Apo, Vasuf, Resul, Ahmet, Salih, Halil.

Also thanks to Zorica Rakic and Hartwig Imlinger of the Juvivo staff, who invited me to do the workshop and supported it.

The workshop was part of a running project called “Medienwerkstatt 2009″ (Media-Lab 2009) of Juvivo15, that is kindly financed by Rudolfsheim Fünfhaus and by the youth magistrate of Vienna (MA13).