The teens took a silent movie and decided to add voices and scripts to it. The first "take" went perfectly, but that wasn't exactly what they wanted. So they "tweaked" a little, and this was the result. You probably have to be a teenager to fully appreciate it.

The students in our summer program wrote their own script, creating a dialogue about manners. Then, they choose avatars and sat in front of the camera which created live cartoons images as they spoke. This was the final product

The kids researched jokes they thought would be funny and practiced delivering them. Once they were satisfied with how the jokes sounded, they turned into avatars to tell them. Here are a few samples. Note how the other 12 kids in the room remained silent during each joke. (This takes about 2 minutes to load in and requires Flash).

Using a different kind of animation, the teens put together this story (the same ones who did "That Was Awkward" above). In the middle of the animation, they had a minor meltdown, which we captured within the scope of the story. This was a nice example of what to do when things don't go as you planned.