Thursday, 15 November 2012

Btec Phase 1 - Fantasia 2000

 
Btec ANIMATION UNIT – Phase ONE
This work counts towards ‘Know about influential animators’ 10.1.11
It also covers 10.1.3 (Flick Book)

TASKS:

1.    Watch ‘Disneyland – the story of animated drawing part 1’ on TEACHING RESOURCES (CGSTORE3) in Media

2.    Using the sheet ‘The Easiest Animation’ – Make a changing drawing using A4 paper (10.1.3)

3.    Using the sheet ‘Create a flip book’ – Make a flip book using 24 10cm by 10cm pieces of paper. Cut these from A4 paper and staple together. (10.1.3)

4.    Complete ONE evaluation sheet for these TWO activities.

BEFORE doing the next activities - please do activities TWO, FIVE and EIGHT (c,d,e,f,g) on your 'Your Qualification and Research Skills' sheet.
               2. Complete the sections about yourself pages 17-22
               5. Skills Building p93-100 (Don’t cheat – the answers are in the back!)
               8.  Research – Learn how to research effectively – read and work through
                   the pages as follows:
c.     Resource Lists pps 44-46
d.     How to research pps 47-50
e.     Researching from experts and the audience pps 50-52
f.      Keeping a log pps 52-54 (We will use blogs too)
g.     Reading, selecting and keeping your research-h pps 55-63
You also need to: SET UP YOUR BLOG :)

5.    Complete the sheets on the following KEY ANIMATORS (10.1.11)
a.    Look them up on WIKIPEDIA and find out a bit about their inventions, including making a note of some biographic details (about their life)
b.    Complete an ‘ANIMATION HISTORY – KEY ANIMATORS INVENTIONS’ sheet for EACH INVENTION you investigate

Key Animators for Phase One: look them up on Wikipedia – check links on Wikipedia to make sure the information is correct!

PAUL ROGET - Thaumatrope
JOSEPH PLATEAU - Phenakistoscope
EMILE REYNAUD – Praxinoscope
FLIP BOOK

Monday, 1 October 2012

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid - 1989
Directed by Ron Clements & John Musker
Studio - Walt Disney

Having watched the film, undertake the tasks in the booklet, using the guide task sheet to help you through. BOOKLET    GUIDE SHEET

The tasks are (very briefly) as follows:
1. Identify all the creatures you saw in the film
2. Draw a new creature
3. Find out about Calypso - write about the music used in 'Kiss the Girl' (about 1 hour into the film)
4. Draw different mouths for the characters and identify the effects changing just one aspect of a drawing can have on meaning
5. DRAMA activity - imagine you can't talk - how do you communicate?
6. Casting Tasks - analyse the effects of the different voices and then choose people you would cast for various characters
7. Editing Tasks - re-writing some of the 'text' and re-ordering the images
8. Interview some of the characters - what might they say?
EXTENSION - make a fish puppet using two dowel sticks