Tagtool

This December I continued to explore the possibilities of producing creative content using the Tagtool with kids. Once again the youth project Juvivo.15 in Vienna supported me in organizing and preparing a group of youngsters by working out a storyboard together. This time the participants were very young (six to nine) and had only three hours on the Tagtool, so I was curious if it would be even possible to produce a clip.

The story “The best friends” that the kids worked out is about the new student Emely, who has difficulties to find friends in class. After some failed attempts she finally succeeds by giving a nice present to a birthday child of the group.

From my point of view this workshop turned out successfully again: The kids were highly focused and keen on realizing their idea within the short time they got. In the future I’d like to change the mode by working over a longer period of time with the same group of kids, let’s say in four or five sessions. Then we can put more emphasis on developing characters and the story..

Thanks to the young creators (story and drawings): Marjan (8), Simran (9), Uriba (9), Manvil (6), Usama (8)

Also thanks to the team of the Juvivo, 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).