2. Follow each step and create a
stick figure waving, a bouncing ball, and a UFO.
3. Have Fun: Create your own flipbook!
Learning
to make an animation
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
1. To learn the craft of animation, you need to get
started on something small. Would you believe the most important part of an
animation is the story!
You need to start thinking about your story. Some
suggestions:
a. A funny thing happened on the way to school
b. A bus driver pulled up suddenly.....!
c. My hobby
d. Going to visit Nannie....
e. Another ending to..... [Raya and the Last Dragon;
The Addams Family; ]
2. While you are thinking about your story line,
look at the following video:
Learn How to Make an Animated Video in Under 10 Minutes
- this is a business video but think about how you can make your
audience [your class/or teacher].
https://youtu.be/lyB1Y9xkSec
3. Create your story using a storyboard.
4. Investigate the animation maker -
Vyond. Use the Free Trial - you
have only 14 days so get your story ready first!
5. Share your animation with the class!
Virtual
Reality and Anaglyph Stereoscopic Technology (developed by
Try Engineering.org)
Middle
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
"Students will use the scientific method to study
'anaglyph' (movie 3D) technologies to model computer science design
and learn how stereo images create the illusion of 3D"
Making a Movie based on information from
NOVA: Air Traffic Control in Australia
Using a mind-mapping tool, work out the storyboard for the
information you have just read about in the articles, and, think of
the story line; the characters involved; and what each of the
character will say!
The initial chapter is taken from Dick Francis' novel "Driving
Force". Students are to create the next chapter by storyboarding and
writing up their story. They can then look at what Francis does!
Students are to develop a Public Service
Announcement (PSA) about the details in an
article [The Conversation] to persuade
Governments [State & Federal] that it is financially sound to house
the homeless. Storyboarding is to take place
first to achieve an excellent PSA.
Bob the Builder (the original version) was loved by young children
in many countries. Scoop was the very first machine owned by Bob the
Builder. As a pair, you are to create a new episode making sure that
Roley is also involved as he too has a mobile plant operator! The
new episode is to be 2 minutes in length.
Part of the activity is to create a storyboard a about Len Waters'
life so that other Australian students might know of the
contribution he made, the hardships he faced back home, and his
later life.
As a pair, you are to create a movie - lasting one minute - about a
conservation issue that you are concerned about using Movie Maker
(or another movie application).