Motion Final Teaser

Some of you have been asking what's new in my motion design class. A whole lot! This week is the last class so I'm polishing my final project, a minute and a half commercial to get the word out about how badly our schools feed our kids. Along with less physical activity, children's poor diet is has caused a record spike in youth onset diabetes, the type you can prevent. And while schools are trying to serve food the kids will eat and that's healthy for them, many just don't have the funds to prepare anything except frozen processed meals.

This fall The Children's Nutrition Act comes up to be renewed. Write your congressman/woman and tell them that it shouldn't just be pushed through without changes. With the budgets in almost every state taking massive cuts, we need to protect our children's health by making it a priority. More than 30 million children rely on school lunches to keep their bodies and mind strong and healthy and in this struggling economy with families scrimping at home, this means this may be the only 'decent' meal a child receives during the day! This isn't some suburban PTA campaign to get "better lunch meat in the cafeteria" (watch Clueless, 1995), it's more than that. It potentially could have a huge impact on national health care costs.

Here is the intro to my movie. I used stop animation to give it a home made look, like a school science project, and used my chalkboard drawing skills for most of the artwork. More to come by the end of the week.

School Lunch Intro.

For more information visit these sites:

Time for Lunch, Slow Food USA's site for school lunch reform, this is the site that is "sponsoring" my project. Great information on the Children's Nutrition Act and other sites

Whole Food's School Lunch Revolution Campaign with Chef Ann Cooper

School Lunch Talk, a blog co-edited by Deborah Lehmann and Ann Cooper with great summaries on current events in school lunch progress

Two Angry Moms, two moms who were surprised to learn what their children ate at school made a documentary (get a group together and watch it!), have appeared on talk shows such as Rachel Ray.

Empowerment Through Food, Project's H NYC chapter is designing gardens for schools which they can then use to learn not only ecology, but business skills, math as well as fundraising for the school (selling seedlings instead of wrapping paper or magazines) and promoting healthier communities