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Thinking about the animations that I have got to do over the next three weeks with the key stage three kids and how I am going to organise that I was thinking of them just messing about with pixilation in the gardens but I think I need a bit more structure e than that they have got to work in groups because there won't be that many cameras and in a flash of inspiration as I walk up the hill I am thinking probably that we should concentrate more on narrative getting them to produce stories that makes sense of the first session which would be very much about story boarding we could then have the second session that would be about going out and taking the film photographs whatever then the third session that would be putting it together so I am thinking that perhaps comic life would be the best approach that they should tell a story in a number of still images and get the story across in a sequence of still images with shots you could have I shall talk to them about close up shots and framing shots and far away shots different camera angles talk about mood talk about weather they use colour or black or white how they sort of construct the narrative and what story they are trying to get across we could still have space for animation and pixilation in there I don't want to restrict it but the possibility of using a story board type narrative to finish up with as well as an animation might be a really good one the constraint obviously is time and the problem is organisation with so may kids running around particularly if the weather is not particularly good thinking back to assignment 5 now on my MA have got to be working out what I am going to do next and really that goes is very much to do with the website that I am working on the interactive pieces and the animation those are sort of the three threads the animation and the photography that is very much to do with what the kids are doing in work that is their work so what I am doing the website design the blogs the communication bit of it which is the bit that I am exploring and my own work I don't know where that fits in doing the technical learning of it i suppose I don't quite know where I am going to get books from or what books I am going to look at I am thinking towards the animation I have been doing a lot of research into animation I just need to log it getting lots of DVD's out of the library and looking through them I just haven't been very good at logging them yet perhaps I should have a chat with the animation guy at UWE and work on that a bit Svankmeyer I have been looking at loads Lotte Reiniger lots of youtube stuff aardman obviously but animation now if I looked through the animation now that book there is one for the bibliography web site design I am sure that I could go through the bookcase and pull out dozens off books that would form a bibliography of the stuff that I have been looking at over the past few years doesn't have to be now does it it doesn't have to be recent ahh right well thinking that I have to write everything up that I speak I better shut up.
Thinking about the animations that I have got to do over the next three weeks with the key stage three kids and how I am going to organise that I was thinking of them just messing about with pixilation in the gardens but I think I need a bit more structure e than that they have got to work in groups because there won't be that many cameras and in a flash of inspiration as I walk up the hill I am thinking probably that we should concentrate more on narrative getting them to produce stories that makes sense of the first session which would be very much about story boarding we could then have the second session that would be about going out and taking the film photographs whatever then the third session that would be putting it together so I am thinking that perhaps comic life would be the best approach that they should tell a story in a number of still images and get the story across in a sequence of still images with shots you could have I shall talk to them about close up shots and framing shots and far away shots different camera angles talk about mood talk about weather they use colour or black or white how they sort of construct the narrative and what story they are trying to get across we could still have space for animation and pixilation in there I don't want to restrict it but the possibility of using a story board type narrative to finish up with as well as an animation might be a really good one the constraint obviously is time and the problem is organisation with so may kids running around particularly if the weather is not particularly good thinking back to assignment 5 now on my MA have got to be working out what I am going to do next and really that goes is very much to do with the website that I am working on the interactive pieces and the animation those are sort of the three threads the animation and the photography that is very much to do with what the kids are doing in work that is their work so what I am doing the website design the blogs the communication bit of it which is the bit that I am exploring and my own work I don't know where that fits in doing the technical learning of it i suppose I don't quite know where I am going to get books from or what books I am going to look at I am thinking towards the animation I have been doing a lot of research into animation I just need to log it getting lots of DVD's out of the library and looking through them I just haven't been very good at logging them yet perhaps I should have a chat with the animation guy at UWE and work on that a bit Svankmeyer I have been looking at loads Lotte Reiniger lots of youtube stuff aardman obviously but animation now if I looked through the animation now that book there is one for the bibliography web site design I am sure that I could go through the bookcase and pull out dozens off books that would form a bibliography of the stuff that I have been looking at over the past few years doesn't have to be now does it it doesn't have to be recent ahh right well thinking that I have to write everything up that I speak I better shut up.