Animation is an enduringly popular style of film, and this approach will help you to take your pupils on an exciting journey to making their own animation. By watching several short animations and completing engaging activities, they'll learn to plan their story, characters and settings, add sound and colour and record it all using tablets or cameras. This resource shows the varied animation techniques that can be used and teach club members how to edit and share their films.
The Your Film Club, Your Way: Animation resource breaks the animation process down into six stages, which we have called 'sessions':
- Session 1: Viewing
- Session 2: Development
- Session 3: Pre-production
- Session 4: Production
- Session 5: Post-production
- Session 6: Exhibition and distribution
Each session provides ideas and step-by-step instructions for activities that can be condensed or extended and delivered over timescales that suit you. How much time and detail you'd like your club members to go into at each stage is up to you - after all, it's your film club, your way.
Your Film Club, Your Way: Animation
This resource guides you through the process of making stop motion animations with your film club.
Software and editing for animation
An overview of different animation apps and software for animating and editing.
An Introduction to Stop Motion Animation
A resource to support stop motion animation in your class or club.
Stop Motion Animation Level 1
Examine ways stop motion animation can be used as a framework for a range of curricular needs, encouraging active learning and raising attainment.
You can also sign-up for our Filmmaking and Animation in the Classroom online course, which will help you learn how to further use simple filmmaking and animation to bring learning to life, and aid cross-curricular attainment and assessment.
News and Views
Announcing the winners of The Animation Challenge
22 May 2017
We're delighted to bring you the two winning films from our recent Animation Challenge competition.
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