Episode 12 Nine Minute Ninja

Time to get my ninja on. And my clothes!

Hey, guys, you ready for band practice?

Yeah, been doing my vocal warm-up exercises.

# Mi, mi, mi, mi, mi, mi, mi

# Mi, mi, mi, mi, mi, mi, mi, mi. #

-SHE SCREECHES:

-# Mi! #

Yeah, great!

So, bass guitar for you.

Oh. Talking of which, where are the instruments?

-Well, I ordered them earlier. Should be here by now.

-Oh!

There was this box on the doorstep.

Well, THAT can't be them, it's too small.

Don't know what THESE are.

Oh, no. It IS the instruments. But these are tiny!

They looked bigger on the internet! Must have ordered the wrong thing.

No band practice, no festival slot for us.

I'm going to have to pack you guys off until I think of

a different plan.

Here's a quick art tip of how to draw an electric guitar.

I'm going to start with four lines going diagonally across my page.

I draw each one slightly longer than the last.

At the bottom here, going to draw a little rectangle,

and that's going to be the bridge.

Now, at the top, where the lines start to end,

I'm going to draw a kind of bean shape with

a flat bottom and that is going to become the head.

On the top here, four little lollies,

and they're the tuning pegs.

And then about a third of the way up, going to draw

a kind of horn shape, and this is going to be the body of the guitar.

The lines on the strings are going to be the frets and now I'm going to

draw a little oval shape underneath the strings there for the pick-up.

Now, I'm going to decorate with some knobs,

and add some little wobbly lines so it looks like it's playing music.

And some musical notes.

There you go! Another quick art tip.

Why not have a play at drawing a guitar yourself?

Hey, I wonder what this girl's got.

Hey, Ricky, can you make art out of a paper cup?

-All right, then, I choose you!

-Yay!

-So what's your name?

-Kadi.

-Hi, Kadi.

So, art with a paper cup. I know!

Rather than filling it with juice, I'm going to fill it with music.

-And I'm going to put together an old-school boom box!

-Cool!

Let me just go grab my things.

OK, Kadi, got my things.

Sticky stuff there.

First of all I'm going to take the paper cups and kitchen roll,

and I'm going to draw a circle on each of the paper cups,

just around my kitchen roll tube.

'Cups are great because they amplify the sound.'

Just going to put some modelling clay on the inside of the cup

and poke a hole with a pencil so I can cut out the circles.

Just easier to get my scissors in there.

So now I'm going to need my phone,

because that's where the music is going to come from, in the boom box.

Put it in the right place, in the middle, I'm going to draw a little

guideline and I'm going to cut a slot for the phone to slide into.

There we are. Put a bit of clay on the inside.

I'll just cut that slot out.

OK? And I'm going to slide that tube inside the two circles that

I've cut in the paper cups.

One on the other side. OK, so I've got them together now like this.

And now we're going to use that to draw some guide holes on the

top of this cardboard box I've got.

It's just an old shoebox.

There we are. So cut two holes

in the top of the box.

So we're going to take the main part of the shoebox and I'm going

to stick the paper cups to the inside of it,

making sure that the slot that I cut is facing upwards.

I'm going to do that with a little bit of PVA glue.

I've got some masking tape to hold it in place while it dries.

I've got a little bit of card here that I'm going to stick to

the top, and that's going to be the handle.

I'm going to pop that to one side while it dries and I'm going

to cut this little bit of black card into long strips.

In a second I'm going to stick these strips on the inside of the

lid of the box, and they're going to become the grille of the speakers.

OK, so I've got the grille now.

So I think I want to draw a little bit of detail on this to make

it look more like a boom box, but I don't have a pen.

-Do you have a pen, by any chance?

-Yep!

-Oh, can I take it from you?

Yep.

Ninja skills! Going to start on the speakers.

I'm going to build them up a little bit more.

OK.

I'll just finish drawing this part of the speaker here.

I think I need some, like,

a bit of detail in the middle to make it look all technical.

The front of the boom box is looking awesome.

So, get some music on my phone. Slide it in there.

LOUD MUSIC PLAYS

-Ready to see the boom box?

-Yeah.

-OK.

What do you think of that?

Epic.

-Sorry?

-Epic boom box!

Yeah, it does sound great!

-So what would you give it out of ten?

-I give it ten.

-What?

-I give it ten!

Yeah, ten, awesome!

Thanks very much, Kadi, it was a great idea. Cheers!

Whoa, what's this? Some kind of balloon disaster?

No, it's just an animation and it's going off with a bang.

To make this popping little animation you'll need

a load of balloons, a balloon pump, or a lot of puff,

a permanent marker, some plastic or paper cups, a camera or

smartphone, a pin, a skateboard, and a selfie stick.

And you can put it together in just three ninja moves.

Ninja move number one. Blow up all your balloons.

About 30 to 40 should do it.

I'm using a balloon pump here,

because I've got quite a lot to get through.

But be careful when you're blowing up your balloons,

because balloons pop.

'Ninja move number two.' Now it's time to start drawing my frames.

Now, I need to be careful here, because the balloons are

super-delicate, and the dry tip of the pen can pop them.

I'm going to be animating a little character on a space hopper.

Also, I'm going to number my balloons,

so I know what order they go in later.

'Ninja move number three.' Now I can start shooting the animation.

Because this is a real-time animation,

it means we don't need to shoot in stop-frame.

I can just use a camera that shoots video.

So for that I'll be using my phone.

The distance between the balloons is key,

so it's good to do some tests first.

I'm mounting the pin on the selfie stick, but I'm using it backwards.

So it's always the same distance from the camera.

I'll be holding the camera in my hand,

and just riding along on my skateboard and popping the balloons.

Now, of course, needles or pins are super-sharp,

so you might need to get an adult to help you.

I'm going to line up the balloons in the correct order

and sticky-tape them to some cups so they don't fall over.

'This is a great thing to do on the weekend!'

We're going for it!

Did that work? I don't know. We've got a few left over.

-Yeah!

-So good.

Whew!

We have made a massive mess, though.

Yeah, you can clean this up, Ricky!

'Now go to the website and get YOUR ninja on!'

Art ninja!