If you’ve been on our website lately you’re sure to have seen the first in a series of educational films posted on our homepage. What makes this film slightly different is that it has been made for children and that it was made using animated Lego characters-hence the catchy title:)
Making educational films is a very new thing here at MedicAlert but luckily for us, two of our staff members decided to test their creativity and try their hand at filming…all for our worthy cause!
Adam and Ozzy are trained jewelers who work in our production department designing and producing MedicAlert emblems. Recently however the pair have been using their creativity, and the software we already have for designing and photographing jewellery, to create short films to help us educate people on how the MedicAlert service works.
The guys talk us through how they made the film:
We both loved playing with Lego as children and as it’s one of the most educational toys available we thought of it immediately when we were asked to make a film for children.….. Our main concern at the start was seeking permission as we didn’t want any problems after we’d spent all the time making the film but luckily Lego had no problems with us using their products as long as the film was educational purposes only-which it was so we were good to go!
We made the set ourselves and filmed it all in the production office over a few days….at the beginning it was difficult getting the timing right with moving all the different characters but we soon got the hang of it and quickly got into a routine with one of us filming and the other moving the Lego pieces frame by frame.
The filming process was fairly time consuming, taking an hour for each second of film but as long as it took you can’t complain about playing with Lego all day!!
Both of the guys really enjoyed filming it and needless to say they are delighted at the great response we’ve been receiving from members since we posted it last week. Plans for the future are to circulate it as an educational resource for teachers later in the year and hopefully this will increase awareness amongst children and teachers of our life saving service. This is far from the last film that Adam and Ozzy will be making with plans in place for more already.
They are also going to start filming our case studies to help spread word of MedicAlert even further. Good work guys!
And if you haven’t seen our film yet here you go……
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