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Basic Animation

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Title:

Basic Animation

URL:

https://www.txcte.org/resource/lesson-plan-it-digital-media-basic-animation

Content Source:

Other
Texas Education Agency
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

In this classroom resource, students will identify different types of animation. They will sketch and assemble a flipbook to be used in a stop-motion animated film. The film will include still-shot images, audio sound effects, and voiceovers.    

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 9-12
Media Arts: Proficient
1) Use identified creative skills to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem-solve in the media arts artistic process.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Conceive
Essential Questions:
EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Creativity
  • Productive thinking
  • Divergent thinking
  • Improvisation
Collaborate
  • Active listening
  • Combining ideas
Aesthetics
  • Appealing
  • Artistic taste
Design process
  • Prototype
Stylistic conventions
  • Techniques
  • Devices
  • Effects
Associated Principals
  • Elements of Design
  • Elements of Dance
  • Elements of Music
Skill Examples:
  • Use productive thinking and divergent thinking to list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a media arts product. Choose one idea to develop based on identified artistic goals and justify the choice. Use improvisation to develop a script/ storyboard for production.
  • In a group, provide constructive criticism for individual media arts products.
  • Collaboratively, apply agreed upon aesthetic criteria to suggest refinements for each product after active listening to each team member's inspiration, goals, and presentation context.
  • Using at least two art forms, outline a plan for a media arts product that serves as a PSA for a school service club, choosing stylistic conventions that support the two art forms and the product's purpose.
  • Exchange copies of media arts products with a classmate. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation, modify and refine a product to reflect personal goals and preferences. Meet and explain choices in modifications.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 9-12
Media Arts: Accomplished
5) Connect varied art forms, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions that retain thematic integrity and stylistic continuity.

Example: Create transmedia productions by using a single thematic storyline in at least three different media projects such as a blog, video, and radio.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Producing
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Process Components: Integrate
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
EQ: How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Message
  • Thematic Integrity
  • Unity
  • Interactivity
  • Curate a series
Creativity
  • Stylistic Continuity
  • Responsiveness to Failure
  • Resisting Closure
Skill Examples:
  • Create a series of three media arts products connected by theme and style but using varied art forms and techniques to address recent events in a self-selected news category. Submit the series for teacher and peer review.
  • Conceptualize an original idea for a series of three media arts product and hold interviews of classmates to "hire" for needed positions. Complete the project and provide "performance reviews" to your "staff" once the series has been presented to an audience.
  • Create an original media arts series that use a combination of tools, styles, and techniques that interact in a unified theme to serve a single purpose and message and meet personal expressive goals.
  • Select, organize, and present a collection of media artworks to educate first graders, fifth graders, and peers about the history of media arts.
  • Attend and evaluate classmates' curations of media artworks. In the spirit of experimentation and growth, implement changes that improve the presentations.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 9-12
Media Arts: Accomplished
9) Curate and design the presentation and distribution of collections of media artworks through a variety of contexts.

Example: Create a collection of media projects to present to mass audiences in both physical and virtual channels, such as school exhibition and YouTube /Vimeo.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Producing
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Process Components: Present
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
EQ: How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks? How can presenting or sharing media artworks in a public format help a media artist learn and grow?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Message
  • Thematic Integrity
  • Unity
  • Interactivity
  • Curate a series
Creativity
  • Stylistic Continuity
  • Responsiveness to Failure
  • Resisting Closure
Skill Examples:
  • Create a series of three media arts products connected by theme and style but using varied art forms and techniques to address recent events in a self-selected news category. Submit the series for teacher and peer review.
  • Conceptualize an original idea for a series of three media arts product and hold interviews of classmates to "hire" for needed positions. Complete the project and provide "performance reviews" to your "staff" once the series has been presented to an audience.
  • Create an original media arts series that use a combination of tools, styles, and techniques that interact in a unified theme to serve a single purpose and message and meet personal expressive goals.
  • Select, organize, and present a collection of media artworks to educate first graders, fifth graders, and peers about the history of media arts.
  • Attend and evaluate classmates' curations of media artworks. In the spirit of experimentation and growth, implement changes that improve the presentations.
Tags: animation, flipbook, stop motion, video
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Author: Tiffani Stricklin
Alabama State Department of Education