Into Animation (BR060)

A unique and versatile resource for teaching animation to 11- to 18-year-olds.

Young people are fascinated by animation and animated stories, and they enjoy the opportunity to create their own. The creative potential of animation is enormous, and integrating animation activities into the school curriculum offers the possibility of tapping this potential to meet a range of educational objectives.

This pack provides a clear introduction for teachers who would like to teach animation or include animation activities as part of their class work. It explains how to produce animated work in the classroom and how animation can be integrated into the curriculum. It can also be used by anyone working with young people in after-school and weekend clubs, or to develop a programme on animation for a school cross-curricular activity week.

Contents

A VHS video compilation
Featuring eleven animated short films and two film extracts, representing wide a range of animation techniques, including:

Drawn
No Arks (Abu Abraham, 8 minutes)
Father and Daughter (Micheal Dudok de Wit, 8 minutes)


Cel
The Broken Jaw (Chris Shepherd, 7 minutes)

Cut out
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, clip: 4 minutes)

3D
Street of Crocodiles (Quay brothers, clip: 4 minutes)
Lucky Dip (Emily Skinner, 3 minutes)

Oil and sand
The Mill (Petra Freeman, 9 minutes)

Pixilated
Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 8 minutes)

Iconographic
The Axe and the Lamp (Halas and Batchelor, 7 minutes)

Rotoscoping
Feeling My Way (Jonathan Hodgson, 5.5 minutes)

Camera-less
Two Sisters (Caroline Leaf, 10.5 minutes)
Sunset Strip (Kalya Parker, 3 minutes)

CGI
Death and the Mother (Ruth Lingford, 10.5 minutes)

The Teaching guide includes:

Descriptions of the films;
Notes on the Persistence of Vision and how to make optical toys;
A timeline outlining the history of animation;
Illustrated guidelines to the elements of animation;
Illustrated guidelines for doing four different types of animation - drawn, 3D model, cut-out and camera-less.
Photocopiable student notes and activity sheets.
The Teaching guide is provided on an easy-to-use CD-Rom. The pupil sheets are provided in PDF format and are easy to print.

Technical specifications: suitable for use on a PC or Macintosh with CD-Rom drive.