David Heredia is the founder of Heroes of Color, a company using education to promote culture through art and animation. Students in National City have been creating video shorts on the social justice topic of their choice and their videos will be screened April 29 at an El Cajon theater.
, his education company, to promote inclusion and empowerment for people of color. The program has grown to include videos, workshops, books and other resources for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. He recently launched an animation program teaching fifth-grade students in National City’s National School District the steps of writing, storytelling and animation to create their own short videos.
“Instead of asking kids, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?,’ this program asks them, ‘What problems do you want to solve in the world?’ By reframing it that way, now we’re going to give them some tools that they can use — how to animate, how to tell a story, how to map it out, what does the animation pipeline look like?” says Heredia, who worked previously for Walt Disney Feature Animation and was a vendor at San Diego’s Comic-Con.
In separate five-week sessions, nearly 600 students in the district have been learning storytelling, written and oral communication, and animation skills, culminating in a small film festival April 29 at El Cajon’s Magnolia Theater, where their 25-second animated shorts will be screened for their friends and family, and the creators will be celebrated walking the red carpet.
First, we get into talking about some basic principles of animation. We talk about storytelling, I give them a format to help them write a very short story. Writing is typically the hardest part of it, so we broke down a formula: it’s “P” for problem, “S” for solution, and “B” for benefit. We start by highlighting a problem. What is the problem you want to solve, a social justice issue that you would like to solve? Everybody has free reign to think of something that affects them personally.
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