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1. Open Pivot Stick Figure animator and open your animation from last week.
2. Play it and look carefully at each part of the body: upper legs, lower legs, upper arms, lower arms – is each one moving correctly?
3. Edit frames of your animation – do one body part at a time – see video below for instructions.

Success steps

• Open Pivot program
• Open and save – from your folder
• Find how to find your folder – Computer – 4f/e/h – your name
• Use simple tools
• BE RESILIENT – keep going – don’s say/think “That’ll do”
• USE YOUR GROWTH MINDSET

• Open Stick Figure Animator: Start menu – all programs – Icons 64 or 86
• To start with, just change the shape of the figure – can you make it into these shapes…?:
  • Running
  • In a star shape
  • Sitting down (on an imaginary chair!)
  • Doing a handstand
  • Swimming

• Use one of the sequence of pictures on the sheets:
  • Put your figure in the first position
  • Click “next frame”
  • Put your figure in the next position
  • Click “next frame”
  • Keep doing this until you have made all of the pictures.
  • Play your animation!
    • Does it look realistic?
    • Is it smooth? (It will be jumpy if you have moved too much in between frames)
• Save your animation in your file:
  • as animation
• If you have finished, have a go at another one.

Listen to some of these radio programmes:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03nsygq#play
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio/subjects/history/romans/characters/the_centurion
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g6vrq#play

What elements make them effective? (Collect ideas then Diamond 9)

Is there anything you would improve?

PMI for radio programmes

Explore Audacity

We are going to use a computer program called Audacity to produce and edit our own radio programmes.

1. Open Audacity
2. Record “Hello and welcome to our radio programme.  I’m [name] and I’m [name]”
3. File – open – find music file Savannah Sketch in Oak/Maple/Folder
4. Select all of the track, copy (Ctrl – C)
5. Go back to the first Audacity file
6. Add a new track by pressing record then stop – select and delete the bit of sound
7. Paste the music in to the new track (Ctrl – V)

Challenges…

1. Can you turn the volume of the music down when you are speaking?
   1. Highlight it on the music track…
2. Can you add more speaking?
   1. Just press record and it will add another track
   2. How can you get the speaking to the correct place?
3. Can you get rid of the spare music at the end – leave 15 seconds after the last speaking
4. Can you fade out the last 5 seconds of music at the very end?
5. Find out what “Auto duck” (in effects) is and how it might be useful

Last week, we made things move using animate.

This week, we are going to use a slightly different type of animating to make a title for a story – like these:

1 Think about a story you could tell.  It could be:

1. A story you already know or have read
2. One of my example stories in shared files
3. A new story of your own

Create a title for your story.

2 Open JIT5 and click animate

Write your title a bit at a time – could be a letter at a time like Pandora’s box or a dot at a time like Mr W is cool.

Instead of using the GREEN plus sign you used last week, use the RED plus sign – this keeps what you have done so you add to it.