Stichting Lezen
De Doorgaande Leeslijn
For Dutch reading foundation Stichting Lezen we created this stop motion film about the pleasure of reading.
The brief was quite simple: create a film that mentions ‘De Doorgaande Leeslijn’. This is the name of a method for teachers to stimulate children between 0 and 19 years old to discover the pleasure of reading.
We portrayed a wide variation of objects that are related to reading and wrote a voice over that is abundant with untranslatable Dutch word play. For example ‘bloemlezen’ would literally mean ‘flower reading’, but it actually means a collection of poetry. We illustrated it with a growing rose and a poem.
We tried to make the reading come to life and show not just the text, but what the words represent; an action sequence is animated with the words in a suspense novel, a pink palace and a purple dragon pop up in a fairy tale book and we’re moving through history in an encyclopedia with up popping characters and buildings.
Everything for this film was designed, built and stop motion animated with paper and glue in our studio. We also created the soundtrack.
De Doorgaande Leeslijn
Anne Frank’s hidden closet
De Doorgaande Leeslijn, making of 02
De Doorgaande Leeslijn, making of 01
De Doorgaande Leeslijn, making of 03
