ASBO Multimedia Workshop

Carmarthenshire's Multimedia bus is part of the Youth First initiative in Carmarthenshire to provide more opportunities to young people in media.

This 57 seater coach (pictured above) which was specially built for the purpose, is equipped with 10 Apple MAC laptops, digital cameras, video cameras, ipods, music and lot more gadgets for the youth of Carmarthenshire to use.

With the bus being on wheels and completly mobile Carmarthenshire Connect arranged for the bus to come up to Brynaman for run an animation workshop with local group, ASBO (All Skate Boarding Outcasts).

The day long workshop was a nice change from the extremely hard work the group has been putting into their new video. The morning started by creating a storyboard for their animation followed by a few hours of playing with Plasticine (great fun) to create their characters for the animation.

The group then used a video camera and some very clever software to take snap shots (frame by frame) for the animation and then put them all together into a short film.

(Member Tom moving their character into place for the next shot)

Please see the groups finished animation below:

(Their finished animation)

If you'd like more information about the Multimedia bus then please visit the Youth First section on Carmarthenshire County Council website.