Projects

Carrwood Primary School

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Project Outline

Children from year 2, 5 and 6 took part in the anim8ed project, working with Cartwright Hall Art Gallery to produce their short films.

Year 2
Year 2 students looked at the idea of pictures telling stories. They listened to storytelling at the gallery and looked at the stained glass window panels on display examining the stories depicted. In school the students chose their own story to animate. The class decided that the ‘Very hungry caterpillar’ would be the best one to turn into a film.

The children made a variety of creative headwear based on insects and worked with the animator to create a pixilation of themselves as caterpillars. They also drew pictures of items the caterpillar would eat through and caterpillars at various angles, close ups of faces and wider views of bodies. The students then decided what order the caterpillar would eat the items in and composed their own version of the ‘Very hungry caterpillar’ story. The animator helped the children edit the work to create their final film.

Year 5
Year 5 students looked at a variety of portraits at Cartwright Hall. They explored the reasons for the portrait’s existence and compared its method of creation with that of modern day recording of a portrait.

Students then went on to draw portraits of each other with pencil and create photomontages of themselves with magazine pieces.

In school
Students were photographed and the images printed out, these were photocopied several times and students created new versions of themselves by colouring over the photocopies. Some drew animal skins, abstract or found textures and shapes or turned themselves into aliens, monsters or robots. The photocopies were then cut into sections rather like a photo fit kit. These photo fit sections were gathered together in collections of eyes, noses and mouths and distributed amongst the students who created an animated photo fit film. The students then chose their favourite photo fit sections to create a permanent creation to stick on to paper and produced an imaginative character description.

Year 6
Year 6 students studied buildings and monuments in the artworks viewed during the Cartwright hall trip. The specifically focused on the work on L.S. Lowry, discussing colour, design and the environments depicted. Students then drew their own buildings in the style of Lowry.

In school students created stop motion animations based on the Lowry paintings studied at Cartwright Hall.

They created backgrounds using the buildings they had drawn during their gallery visit and small clay models from plasticine.

The students worked in small groups to create a ‘slice of life’ type mini films looking at the various activities the towns people might carry out. The students then carried out some simple editing in Windows Movie Maker and added a sound track.