- Design
by Sound for the Moving Image graduate, Sean De Francesco sees return of the family of English Setters featured in his
Graduate Showcase piece Bosca Regina - The
film reflects
the way that Christmas brings people and families together
The Glasgow School of Art has unveiled its annual Christmas e-card
today, 16 December 2020. This year’s design takes the form of a film created by
Sound for the Moving Image graduate Sean De Francesco, and sees return of the family of English
Setters featured in his 2020 Graduate Showcase piece Bosca Regina.
“I am pleased to share our 2020 Christmas e-card,” says GSA Director, Penny Macbeth. “Sean’s evocative film reflects on these times of separation and our desire for family contact. It has captured both the beauty of the Scottish landscape and the reality of a time where outdoor meetings will be the safest way to see our families at Christmas.
“We are also delighted to see the return of Helly, who we first met in Sean’s Graduate Showcase film Bosca Regina, and to meet her puppy, Masca.”
“For the Christmas Card I wanted to create something wild and magical,” says Sean de Francesco. “After the warm reception of my Graduate Showcase film “Bosco Regina”, I decided to create another film with my Dad’s very talented troop of English Setters, which now includes a three-month old puppy.
“I wanted to reflect the way that Christmas brings people and families together and so my film tells the story of a mother being reunited with her puppy. Scotland’s beautiful forests make the perfect stage for this tale.”
“To give it an air of mystical festivity, I wanted to show the forest coming alive with light and have it lead us to the puppy underneath the tree.”
Sean de Francesco Speaks about the design
for this year’s GSA e-card and his experience as a BDes student in the
School of Simulation and Visualisation
Sean de Francesco is one of the first students to have studied for a BDes in Sound for the Moving Image at the GSA through articulation from FE college. Since graduating this summer he has been working as a freelance filmmaker and camera operator. He has produced several music videos, commercials, and has also been involved in some TV including being an additional camera operator on “Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime” for BBC Two.
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Note for Editors
· Recent GSA Christmas e-cards have been created by:
Eleanor Stewart, founder of Clubhouse, with music by Fiona McNeill (2019)
Graeme John Douglas Ronald (2018)
Roxanne Clifford, aka Patience (2017)
Donald Barr (2016)
James Houston (2015)
Ross Hogg (2014)