Phase Three - Early Animators - Fleischers and Reiniger

TASKS:
1. Investigate and then Complete a sheet on the KEY ANIMATORS below (10.1.11)

1. Look them up on WIKIPEDIA and find out a bit about them, including making a note of some of the films they’ve made. Post this on your blog, remembering to keep a copy in a WORD docx for safe keeping.
   
2. On YOUTUBE, watch as many examples as you can of their work – see Mrs Thrasher’s Animation playlist on the channel ‘Mediamonkeymovies2’ and on Teaching Resources>Student>Media>Resources Library>Videos>Animation and Cartoons
   
3. Complete an ‘ANIMATION HISTORY – KEY ANIMATORS FILMMAKERS’ sheet for EACH ANIMATOR you investigate – use an extra ‘FILM RESPONSE’ sheet if necessary.
   

2. Find out about the ROTOSCOPE (10.1.5) – it’s massively important for animation and it is still used in modern films.

1. Find a sketch of a ROTOSCOPE and an image showing the effects created by them (using Google image search)
   
2. What does the Rotoscope do? How does it work? Look on YOUTUBE as well as Google – there are may videos showing Rotoscopes and how they work.
   
3. Find out about some films that have used a ROTOSCOPE – add some images and information about them – a minimum of TWO films please.
   

Key Animators for Stage One: (Phase 3) 

Lotte REINIGER The FLEISCHER brothers Make sure you watch the following as a MINIMUM:
LOTTE REINIGER 
Cinderella The little chimney sweep
Hansel & Greta 
The adventures of Prince Achmed 
The three wishes

THE FLEISCHERS   
KoKo the clown 
Noah’s Lark 
Out of the inkwell 
Betty Boop

SOME OF THESE ARE ‘STARS’ OF VIDEOS AND YOU WILL FIND LOTS OF VIDEOS WITH THE CHARACTER IN so CHECK THEM OUT! Especially Betty Boop