Thursday 19 January 2017

Digital Media/Film-Making

Film making is where the illusion of motion is created through frame-by-frame pictures. Animation is something which should be taught to children as it brings many advantages to a child. Some of these include: developing critical observation skills; encouraging critical thinking; encouraging collaboration and co-operation etc.

When film making is brought into the classroom it also ameliorates their creativity skills as well as many other aspects which some teachers may not have considered.  David Parker once introduced this topic within a classroom and found that the children developed their literacy capability even further by doing this. David Parker (1999) continued by explaining that the lessons had been structured around reading and writing activities based upon the source text. Key questions had been resolved around what images, movements or scenarios were suggested by the prose and how pupils could change these into a script format.

Activities which can be interpreted into a subject such as this is one which we had taken part in within today’s lecture. This activity included making a thaumatrope – this is a scientific toy which dates back to the 19th century.  It is made up of a cardboard disc shape which has two different pictures on each side. When the disc is rotating rapidly, the two images combine to become one. This is an example of one which I had done during today’s session:

This activity enforces the children to learn that the world that they see is made up of frame-by-frame pictures.

References 

• Parker, David. “You’ve Read the Book, Now Make the Film: Moving Image Media, Print Literacy And Narrative”. English in Education 33.1 (1999): 27. Web. 19 Jan. 2017.