Amination Project Continued!

Charlotte and I decided to work together for the project as we both work well together and come up with great ideas. We talked about the different topics that we could possibly do and what would be interesting compared to the others, we weighed up the pros and cons and analysed whether there was enough information to get the message across and whether it was time consuming. What we hope to do was choose a topic that someone else in the class hadnt chosen. After researching online we narrowed it down to a few which were:

• Poverty
• Smoking
• Healthy Eating
• Bullying
• SEN

Finally we came to the decision that as Healthy Eating is one of the biggest topics in school now it would be a nice message to send to the children in Primary Schools.

Even though we had chosen our topic there was still loads more planning to do. We had to figure what our message would be?, what our amination would be ? How our storyboard would follow, what kind of characters we would hve. We also had to decide whether it was going to be a serious type of animation and intense or whether it was going to be funny and eye catching.

Animation Project

Had a full day in University today to begin my Animation Project for design and technology and ICT. When we arrived at the seminer Suzie and Mandy went through some relevant information about different animation and showed some videos. Suzie talked about the school she has recently worked with completing an animation alongside a poem with a class of year 5 and 6. The video was fabulous and really touching to see how well the children worked for such a young age.
We also watched a popular video called 'Dot' that was a piece of animation work for that took up alot of time and effort.

After we had recieve some knowledge and background information on Animation Suzie and Mandy placed A3 pieces of paper around the classroom with different topics on and our task was to move around the classroom and jot down ideas realting to the topic too see what infortmation we can gather together to decide on our choose topic and message for our amination!