Wee Wise Words of Children Creates New Animation Series
You need nine million thousand pounds to be considered rich – at least that’s according to one of the local primary school children who took part in the new BBC Northern Ireland animated series, Wee Wise Words.
The new series, from the makers of Days Like This and On The Air, puts the words and thoughts of children on a range of subjects in to a colourful animated world.
Their opinions - always fresh, bright and insightful – give new meaning to everyday events and subjects that can only be seen through the eyes of a child. Could hell be a place where residents push stones up a hill only for a red person with a pitch fork to push it back down again? And could heaven be a place where there’s no need for suntan lotion?
The children also give their insights into how banks work, the price of cars and how it’s not a good idea to add hot water to fish tanks.
The series of five-minute animated programmes are broadcast from Sunday, December 20 until Wednesday, December 23 on BBC One Northern Ireland. The first programme, at 10.55pm on Sunday looks at the subject of ‘Money’ with the following programmes hearing what the children have to say about ‘Heaven and Hell’,’ Families’ and ‘Christmas’.
Director Joel Simon, of Flickerpix who made the series for BBC Northern Ireland said:
“It’s amazing how children view the world they live in. It can be very entertaining and refreshing and often very funny to hear what they think. That’s whey we created this new series and recorded primary school children from across Northern Ireland giving their thoughts on issues from how much money do you need to be rich to where we go after we die.
“We then took some of those audio recordings and transposed them into situations to create a new animated world that we felt the children were describing. Some are funny, some quite moving and others quite thought provoking. The whole feel of the show is that of reading a 1960s children’s book, illustrated with angular, quirky and fun characters.”
The first Wee Wise Words programme, ‘Money’, is on Sunday, December 20 at 10.55pm on BBC One Northern Ireland. It’s followed on Monday by ‘Heaven and Hell’ at 10.35pm, with ‘Families’ on Tuesday at 10.35pm and the final programme in the series ‘Christmas’ on Wednesday at 10.45pm.
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You need nine million thousand pounds to be considered rich – at least that’s according to one of the local primary school children who took part in the new BBC Northern Ireland animated series, Wee Wise Words.
The series of five-minute animated programmes are broadcast from Sunday, December 20 until Wednesday, December 23 on BBC One Northern Ireland. The first programme, at 10.55pm on Sunday looks at the subject of ‘Money’ with the following programmes hearing what the children have to say about ‘Heaven and Hell’,’ Families’ and ‘Christmas’.