SPIRELLO

Spirello - Concepts & songs

 

Series of animated music videos for children, 26 x 3 minutes

Each of the episodes in this beautiful animated series tells a story about a different animal, but what makes 'Spirello' unique is that the stories are told in specially composed songs. Devised for very young children charming lyrics using simple words to tell stories are then animated to the music.The songs can easily be adapted into other languages as there is no lip sync. Versions have already been made in English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech and Slovak language.


The characters are animals. The designs consist of an easily recognisable head and body, but what makes them special is that the legs are spirals – hence the name 'Spirello'. The simplicity of the design isreminiscent of children's drawings and is aimed at stimulating children to draw animals themselves. The stories are relevant to a small child's experience. What happens to the animals featured might well happen to the children who watch, so if a song is about a hippo being selfish, for instance, children will equate the situation with their own experience of selfishness.

SPIRELLO TITLES:

1. Elephant Ears
2. The Giraffe with a Scarf
3. Panther King
4. Baby Kangaroo
5. Bear's First Day
6. Teacher Crane
7. Wondering Aardvark
8. Dad is such a Boar
9. The Angry Rhino
10. The Wise Lion
11. Selfish Hippo
12. Helpful Duck
13. Jungle Dance
14. Parrot Fashion
15. The Absent-Minded Goose
16. Laughing Chameleon
17. Crocodile Food
18. Buffalo Hides
19. Cockatoo's Shoe
20. Jumping Frog
21. Squirrel's Nightmare
22. Banana Battle
23. Odd-Snake-Out
24. Good Night Flamingo
25. Ostrich Family Fight
26. Orang Utan Nonsense

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