Arts & Entertainment
Mr. No-Green Threatens Greenbelt in 75th Anniversary
Young people are creating film featuring computer-animated figures battling it out on a miniature replica of Greenbelt's Roosevelt Center.
Throughout 2012, Greenbelt’s 75th anniversary year, a new menace will threaten the town: the evil Mr. No-Green, with cat and dog henchmen in tow.
If 13-year-old Madison Hudson has it her way, the villain will be slain and become a ghost.
But in a discussion in the on a recent Friday evening, Melissa Fisher has a different idea: Mr. No-Green discovers he has a super power, corporation power, which allows him to turn every building in Greenbelt into an office building and turn all Greenbelters into business people. All is not lost, as at the same time people discover they have a super power to counter corporation power - cooperation power.
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Whatever the powers these people might have, it’s sure to be an epic battle. And as the battle works its way mainly through , all the good citizens in all parts of Greenbelt unite to fight Mr. No-Green and unnamed hench-animals.
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The battle will go on for months, and will be documented on film as it occurs.
The Roosevelt Center in the film is made of cardboard and foam and is only six feet long with three-foot high buildings, including a movie theater. Mr. No-Green and all the other characters are not in the same physical realm, rather computer animations that are made to move in and around the movie set.
All the action is taking place in Friday night classes in the Greenbelt Access Television (GATE) studio in the Community Center, under the auspices of the Greenbelt Association for the Visual Arts (GAVA)/GATE animation class. The instructor and producer is the definitely good Mr. Geo, a.k.a. George Kochell, who is also the GATE production manager.
Hudson and Fisher are two of the students who volunteered to make an animated short film for Greenbelt’s anniversary, to be shown the last weekend of October at Greenbelt’s annual Utopia Film Festival. All of the volunteers will work themselves into the action as animated characters.
In December 2010, GAVA/GATE received the annual Jim Cassels Community Service Award grant, providing initial funding for the anniversary film project.
Look for part two of Mr. No-Green Threatens Greenbelt tomorrow.