Year8Unit6Animation

=Year 8 Unit 5 Animation= =Unit Question: How can animation be used to inform and educate others? =
 * Unit 6: What are the consequences of poor choices? **

=New Language of this Unit=
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 * Animation
 * Timelines
 * Keyframe
 * Blank Keyframe
 * FPS (Frames per Second)
 * Onion markers
 * Modify Onion markers
 * Conversion between graphic and symbol
 * Text animaitons
 * Panels
 * Layers
 * Stickman
 * Flash

=How can I use Animation to inform and educate others?= Stickman is in school and he is going to make a bad decision and something will happen. It can be good or bad? Thats up to you.

=Investigation=

Have a look at this interactive animation for some ideas of what is possible in Flash - draw a stickman and then see how you can help him - will he survive thanks to your skill? [|Drawastickman] Students to complete 4 tasks as part of their skills exercise, each animation shoule be 6 to 10 seconds long at 12 frames per second (fps) Task 1: Stick-man on the Ramp! Does he make it or not? Task 2: Create a Text effects using their name Task 3: Merge a picture into another one and then into a third one Task 4: Do an animation of a car coming towards any person and either hitting them or missing them. All 4 must be visible on the unit 4 page.

Then answer the unit question =How can animation be used to inform and educate others? =

Design Brief
An animation about stick man in our school environment making a good or bad decision.

Design Specifications
Must follow the story board Must have 6 scenes Must be at least 150 frames long Must have some writing i.e. to introduce a scene or some talking Must have different layers for scene, you will probably end up with over 10 layers

Test Plan
You must create a testing plan A simple test plan would be to get your buddy to test it. A better test plan would include user testing and be based on the design specifications.

Extension:
If you use pictures you should if possible edit them in photoshop first to get rid of the white background = Deadline 20th April = =Design= You are going to design three different animations. The story of each animation will be the same. i.e. cycling into the pool but you will design three different scenes as to how it happened. Think about the scenes, background layer, the bike layer and whatever other layers you will use. You will create a 2D story board. If you do not know what a story. board look up this. You will have 3 story boards. Do not make it too complicated. Example 1: Stickman is by himself at the pool and falls into the pool while on his bike Example 2: Stickman is with his friends and one of them pushes him into the pool while he is riding the bike around the pool Example 3: Stickman cycles into the pool with Mr. Sargent looking to win a bet with his friends for 5000Mk This is the ideas now draw a 8 minumum story board for each of the above = Deadline 27th April = =Planning= You plan how long it is going to take you to do this animation

= Deadline 3rd May = =Create= You make the animation based on the design you choose in the design stage. If you make any changes to your design you must justify why you made changes.

Flash file fla or swf file
You upload the flash file after publishing it in flash so it becomes a swf file To publish in Flash you click Fi**l**e Publish Settings (the Publish settings window opens) Make sure the first 2 check boxes are clicked swf and html Then click Publish OK Remember to check where you are publishing them to by clicking on the folder Icon and looking at the destination folder The file you want on the is the swf file You then upload this swf file like a normal upload to the wiki and you should end up with something like we have below. If you cannot upload the swf file, you can upload the flash file (fla). Your teacher will then download this and look at your work in Flash

media type="file" key="carexample.swf" width="360" height="270"

= Deadline 17th May = =Evaluation= You must evalaute every stage of the design cycle and include evidence of testing your product based on the test plan.

=Attitude to technology= Did you submit everything on time? Did you work in a group? Did you work independently? Did you help you buddies?

= Deadline 24th May = Extra Reading/Extension Do you know who Sponge Bob is? Follow this link to see some story board information about him? Check out this [|website] for some more story boards.