1. Learning through Animation Learning through Animation

2. (Year 3/4 class project)

3. Multimedia surrounds children all the time...
Film making is more relevant than ever

4. Ofsted say that on average children look at five different screens
every day...let’s give children some ownership over them.
It’s a media rich world...
Source: Professor Steve Molyneux Learning Lab

5. So, why movie making? Communication Creativity Collaboration Challenge
Craft
Confidence

6. Benefits of movie making
Communication
Creativity
Collaboration
Challenge
Craft
Confidence
Benefits of movie making
Filmmaking enables children and young people to develop their creative, team working and technical skills, expressing themselves through a media that transcends barriers in academic ability, literacy, language and cultural background.

7. It motivates, empowers and increases confidence:
A range of skills:
Filmmaking can draw on the strengths of all children allowing everybody to achieve. Creative thinkers can work on the ideas, writers can take charge of the script, ICT enthusiasts can do the editing, organisers can become directors, performers can act: there is a job for everyone.
It's a great leveller: The filmmaking process is a great leveller, children with special needs are often able to achieve on an equal footing with their more academically able peers
It motivates, empowers and increases confidence:
When young people are filming they are framing their own world. It provides a real team adventure and a long lasting product to be proud of.
Improved Behaviour:
Children really enjoy filmmaking and, for some, it gives them a rare opportunity to achieve. 
Why
Filmmaking?
Planning skills:
A great deal of preparation goes into making a film. Each aspect from camera angles, props, costumes and settings has to be thought about, prepared and planned before the camera rolls. Skills such as brainstorming and storyboarding can be taught.
Problem solving:
In the making of a film, there will often be some problems to overcome. These may be technical problems or logistical ones. It provides a great opportunity for children to work independently to overcome issues.

8. Little Red Riding Hood Literacy: Science: Use of materials
Reading and analysing the text
Re-telling the story from different points of view
Writing play scripts
Using story boards
Writing introductions and conclusions
Character studies/profiles
Speaking and listening activities
Research skills
Science:
Use of materials
Investigate how to create the best lighting conditions
Experiment with how materials fare in different conditions
DT:
Investigate the stability of the models
Investigate ways of fixing and moving components
Little Red Riding Hood
Art:
Designing and making the characters
Designing and making the backdrops
Exploring camera angles/viewpoints
ICT:
Understanding animation techniques
Relating ICT used in school to the ‘real world’
Using digital cameras/webcams
Editing using Movie Maker
Recording and editing sound
Begins to understand different file formats

9. Great way to introduce animation – Pivot Stick Figure Animator
Free software
Create animations easily
Animations can be previewed as you go
You can use more than one stick figure and create you own
Saved as animated GIF, which can be exported to movie maker to add music etc.
Your own pictures can be imported as backgrounds to personalise the animation
(Year 4 computer club)
Free download -

10. Stop Motion Methods Using a webcam Using a digital camera
(Year 2 class project)
Using a digital camera
Year 6 – Independent work

11. Stop-motion animation – using a webcam and SM Animator
english/stop_motion_animator.html
Pros
Cons
Free download
Very easy to use
Counts the number of frames you have taken
Provides instant feedback for younger learners
Quality depends on the webcam (nearly always lower than a digital camera)
Onion skinning effect isn’t reliable
Skills linked to single program
Y1 project

12. Stop-motion animation – using a digital camera and Windows Movie Maker
Pros
Cons
Free program that anyone with a PC will have
Widens experience
Familiarity with using cameras
Helps to advance other ICT skills
More initial input
Younger children need a lot of support
Use of too many photos will freeze older computers

13. Open the options through the Tools menu
Change the picture duration – 0.25, or work well
Drag your pictures into the timeline, and add any audio you need

14. Sound www.findsounds.com www.ilovewavs.com www.freesoundtrackmusic.com
(on the movie maker timeline)
audio.lgfl.org.uk