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Useful Stuff for educators
Making a short animated film can involve many creative processes. Here are some of the things that an animation workshop can teach:
- Understanding a brief
- Brainstorming and discussing ideas for a story
- Evaluating suggestions
- Writing scripts
- Awareness of genre
- Talking about experiences, feelings and opinions
- Independence and interdependence
- Arts and Design - using different media
- Maths and Measurement skills – sizes and timing
- Drama – Studying others emotions and actions
- Deciding on characteristics of each character in film – actions and parts needed
- Examining a range of emotions and corresponding facial expressions
- Using movement and mime
- Awareness of necessary equipment and how it works
- Understanding of sequencing and continuity
- Animating the characters and using the associated technology
- Recording dialogue - talking to convey information
- Recording sound effects
- Personal and Social Development - Self-esteem
Red Kite are registed with Learning and Teaching Scotland to provide teacher training and CPD workshops in animation. Please visit the CPD Find site or contact us for more information.
Here's some other very useful websites.
www.movingimageeducation.org
This is a new website covering film making and how to start. Theres a great guide for making animated films there too.
www.teachers.tv/video/2743
This video on the "Teachers TV" website is a great example of a class teacher working with a group on an animation project.
