Waiting : Aros

Details

Made in 2002
3.5 minutes
Transferred to 35mm print, Dolby A sound
Handmade background art and textures, digital painting in Photoshop and Coral Painter

Dreams, hopes and denials. A rainy day, a girl is bored, waiting for her father to come home. She is remembering when she last saw him, he has been gone a long time and she imagines what has happened to him, has he drowned? Was he rescued? Will he come home?

Credits

Animation – Kevin Richards, & Lucy Lee
Rendering – Hyun-Joo Kim & Lucy Lee
Background Artwork – Annie Gunning & Danny De Vent
Art Direction – Hyun-Joo Kim & Lucy Lee
Composer, Sound Design & Track lay – Sam Sutton
Marimba – Barbara-Jane Waddell
Alto Flute – Caroline Welsh
Man – Ken Polton
Mixed at Inspired Sounds, Cardiff
Edit & grading at Barcud Derwen, Cardiff
Transfer to film at Digital Film Lab, London
Written & Directed by Lucy Lee
Produced at Instinct Media by Lucy Lee
Advisors – Halo Productions, Liana Dognini
A Lucy Lee Production for S4C and Sgrin in association with The Arts Council of Wales
Made with the support of the National Lottery Fund through the Arts Council of Wales Lottery fund.
© S4C/Sgrin/ACW 2002

Technique

Hand drew the character animation on paper, scanned each frame, then painted up each frame in Coral Painter and Photoshop. For the interior scenes we scanned in sections of Annie Gunning’s oil paintings and used that as a texture brush for painting the characters, and to make the backgrounds. The sea scenes where made much the same way, but using Danny De Vent’s sea painting as the background and as the texture brush. The grass shots were done by filming through long grass, then roughly drawing up each frame onto celluloid sheets, then re-filming it on a multi-plane rostrum, with various levels, then touching it up frame by frame.

Awards

Awarded at A Corto Di Cinema, Italy, 2003 – Special Mention for film language.

Festivals & Distribution

2002
Wales Film Festival – Wales

2003
Fike – Portugal
Iranian Young Cinema – Tehran
Foyle – Ireland
Malescorto – Portugal
Badalona – Spain
Edinburgh – UK
Edinburgh Deaf Focus – UK
Sicaf – Korea
Odense – Denmark
Anima Mundi – Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo
Message to Man – St. Petersburg
A Corto Di Cinema – Lucca, Italy
Cinema Jove – Spain
Singapore Film Festival – Singapore
Dresden – Germany
Sgrin Shorts Tour – Wales

2004
Soho Shorts – London
Hiroshima – Japan
New European Cinema Week – Italy
Zagreb – Croatia
Bimini – Latvia
Sgrin Shorts Tour – Wales
Avancia – Portugal
Tindirindus, Vilnius –- Lithuania
3FF No Words – Italy
Greace
Cineforum Bolzano – Italy

2005
Festival of Cinema and Technology – worlwide
Int. Film & Vid. for Children & Young Adults – Tehran
Super Shorts Online Festival – London
Multimedia Audiovisual Film Festival Warsaw – Poland
ROSHD International Film Festival, Tehran – Iran
Leicester International short Film Festival – UK
Line Out, Short Film Festival of Leicester – UK

2006
NAF – Neum Animated Film Festival – Bosnia and Herzegovina