Animation

							Proposal for Creative Arts Workshop for Secondary School Students




                                    <ANIMATION WORKSHOP>

Group member: Choi Tang-yik; (yr. 2 BACM)
              Winnie, Chung Wing-yu (yr. 2 BACM)
              Kenji, Tong Ka-wan (yr. 2 BACM)

   I. General concept

    The workshop is mainly about animation. It includes the history of animation, the basic
    concepts, and different medium of animation and computer animation. The idea of this
    workshop is let student to get fun in animation art and explore multi- medium of an
    interesting way to express their creativity idea through the sequence of image .

  II. Aims

        Increase sensitivity of observation in live.
        Get an active attitude in the medium of still image.
        To explore the relationship between images and time space.

 III. Art medium

Integrate of animation and computer graphic. We mostly will use Flash and Photoshop.

IV. Target Clients

    Basically Junior Secondary School students (Form1-3). We assume the workshop have
    15- 20 students.

 V. Content

        Interactive ways to get idea of an animation, such as games; group project of
         experimental of animation.
         Through screening of animation clips, exploring different skills to make animation.
        Student should design their only way to produce a creative animation.

Week          Lecture (within 30mins)              Tutorial (within 1hr)    Class work     Material &
                                                                                           Setting
Week 1                 Showcase: Different           Making of            Phenakisto       Television

                        medium of                      Phenakistoscope      scope            Art room

                        animation                                                            Cutting tools

                       The principle of                                                     Card board

                        Phenakistoscope                                                      Colour

                        animation                                                             paper


Week 2                 Basic concept of              Show flip book       Flip book          Television
                        animation                     Screening (format:   (Remarks:          Art room
              (Ref. the master of the principle:                            draw simple
                                                       VHS or VCD)                             A blank flip
                   -Squash and Stretch                                      object & the
                                                                            pages around        book
                   -Timing and Motion
                   -Anticipation                                            60 <5s>)
                       Showcase:
                        experimental
                        animation




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Week 3                 Method of image             Sop-motion               Stop-             Television
                        capture                                              motion            Art room
                                                                             capturing         Digital
                                                                             (Remarks:          camera
                                                                             announcemen
                                                                             t for final
                                                                             project)
Week 4             (Continue to week 3)             (Continue to week 3)     Output the        Television
                                                                             stop-             Art room
                                                                             motion            Digital
                                                                                                camera
Week 5                 FLASH workshop I               Basic Flash skills   Simple            Art room
                                                        1: motion graphics   flash
                                                       Flash skills 2       animation
Week 6                 FLASH workshop II              Flash skills 3       Form              Art room
                                                                             group 1-4
                                                                             people
                                                                             (Final
                                                                             animation)
Week 7                 Conclusion &                Presentation of                            Art room
                        review                      student works


     Schedule

February
Sun             Mon             Tue             Wed                 Thu      Fri           Sat
8               9               10              11                  12       13            14
15              16              17              18                  19       20            21
                week 1
22              23              24              25                  26       27            28
                week 2
March
29              1               2               3                   4        5             6
                week 3
7               8               9               10                  11       12            13
                week 4
14              15              16              17                  18       19            20
                week 5
21              22              23              24                  25       26            27
                week 6
28              29              30              31
                week 7

VI. Time line

     It is suggested to design a 7-session workshop. The workshop will start on 16 th February.
     And each lesson will hold 1.5 hrs. The first 30 minutes is a lecture part, and one hour is a
     tutorial part, it includes some individual works.




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