Not Going My Way by Inigo Brathwaite

Not Going Our Way is an animated film based on a real incident. After a friend's 21st birthday party, Inigo Brathwaite, his mother and his girlfriend were looking for a taxi. His mother tried to hail several but they didn't stop. Inigo had no luck either. But when his girlfriend tried, one stopped immediately. Inigo realised why: his mother is black; he's mixed race and his girlfriend is white. 'Taxi drivers don't stop for everyone,' he says.

'I'm using an animation style which I started working with when I was doing my BA animation course,' Inigo told VEE-TV. 'The reason I started doing this was because I wanted accurate sign-language animation.'

Inigo starts by shooting a scene on video (in this case using his mother and his girlfriend as the actors). Then he edits the scene on a computer, prints it out, frame by frame, and draws out all the frames with a pencil on animation paper.

'I got into animation when I went to study for a BA Hons in animation, media and society at Northbrook college,' Inigo says. 'I'm good at drawing, and I like films. It developed from there really.

'It's been hard to produce an animation in such a short amount of time – it just means you've got little time for anything else. I was surprised at the amount of drawing for this film: I've done over 1,000 frames. It was difficult to keep on drawing when I didn't want to, but then I really wanted my film done, so I kept going.'

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