The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) Animation Challenge

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is looking for animations created by students that represent one of the following musical movements. 

Create your animation to represent one of these movements:

• Movement I: Awakening. Track Cue 1: 0.00–6.22

Introduction – Lullaby – Awakening – The Escape
 

• Movement II: Plummet. Track Cue 2: 6.22–10.27

Suspension – Slow Motion (Pixilation) – Descending to the Sea
 

• Movement III: Trash Vortex.  Track Cue 3: 10.27–14.11 or Track Cue 4: 14.12–18.14
  Surging dirge, reality, beautiful melodies intertwined with the trash vortex texture – Repeat (not literal) – Albatross circling – Ending

You may use any software to create the animation such as:

• PowerPoint
• AnimateIt for stop-motion animation
• DoInk for green screen activities
• iMovie
• Adobe Animate
• Adobe Character Animator
• Scratch and Scratch Junior
• Minecraft

How to submit your entry

Upload your animation to YouTube and email the YouTube link to education@sydneysymphony.com by Monday 21 May 2018.

(Mrs Bassett would also love to see any entries that you submit. Please share with her at meghan.bassett@syd.catholic.edu.au)

Applications must include:

• The student's name and age
• Track cue number
• A short description of what appealed to them in the music to inspire their visual representation
• Which animation tools they selected.

The SSO will advise which students' animations selected for screening in the week commencing 21 May 2018.

More information is available here.