visiting professional

Kath Chapman

From Fettle studios

Fettle studios were responsible for the war time animations that portray various interviews of survivors of people who were imprisoned in concentration camps, these animations are very informative, and i really enjoy how animation is used in a documentation approach and how it represents the issues in question as there is not much footage of that time.

Kath works with her partner and a crew of people at fettle to create these fantastic animations. their demographic is very specific, keeping to a strict age range of 12 to 13 year olds.

The most important thing that i got from this talk is when she described the industry and how it worked, she went on to say that you have got to be tough, no body is going to hand you jobs on a plate, you have to go and get them yourself!

"Believe in yourself!"

because this industry is highly competitive!

But she also gave me another insight into the industry, a different angle:

TV companies are not innovators, they are iterators, they don't like taking risks!

A slight issue they uncovered whilst doing these animations was the interviews themselves, they were interviewing elderly people, and she said they go on tangents and like to waffle quite a bit. so for example for one animation they had to edit down the material from 3 hours 30 minutes to 4 minutes, which is a hell of a lot of cutting. so I will keep in mind that if and when it comes to interview, I should be prepared for something similar.