Y4 Animated story

Pick and mix starter activities – do at least one of these

1. Create a page-flick animation
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njl-uqnmBGA
   2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-BdBSOGKY
2. Learn about the history of animating – how was it done before computers?
3. Watch an episode of Ivor the Engine – think about how they did the animation – which part move/don’t move?
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHMHC4GN5s8

Practise your animatin skills on one of these:

1. JIT5 animation
2. Gifpain gifpaint
3. Animation app on your phone or tablet

Tell a short story through animation

1. Choose a short story – Shackleton, a Bible story, an fable by Aesop,…or you could just choose one scene from a story
2. Sketch out a storyboard and mini-script to tell the story/scene
3. Decide on the following
   1. How many scenes?
   2. What moving part do you need?
   3. What backgrounds do you need?
4. If you are using an animation app that uses the camera, make your backgrounds, characters and props for your scene (make them simple, big and bold)
5. Create your animation!

Share your animations

1. In JIT5 click “save as gif”.  Or you could include your JIT5 animate in a mix page with text and audio.
2. Gifpain you can save as a .gif file then upload to j2e files
3. Phone/tablet app – save your animation and upload to j2e files.

Questions?

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