Literacy Resources

As an authority we are taking part in an animation and poetry project entitled Persistence of Vision.  Through a group of schools, consultants, animators and academic mentors we are working together to create a framework of progression in animation that can be used by all primary schools.

Today was our first day and was really about the basics of creating an animation with Oscar Stringer.  We used I Can Animate software and Hue webcams.

One of the issues that we are exploring is what impact does watching animations have on children’s own animations.  We watched Laughing Moon from the BFI Starting Stories and Love on the Wing from Story Shorts 2. These two animations were chosen becuase of the links that they had to the poetry units in Yr 2 – Patterns on the Page (Laughing Moon) and the use of imagery in Yrs5 and 6 (Love on the Wing).

Learning and Teaching Scotland has some interesting ideas for creating animations in powerpoint that follow on from Laughing Moon.  And this idea using sticky post-its is fantastic for playing around with patterns!  This video, Trade Tatoo, from the GPO film unit is yet another great way of using patterns.

Below are the animations created by the teachers working in pairs.

Next session we will work on sound.