Activity

After watching the film through once, ask students to discuss their initial reactions: What adjectives do they association with the film? How the animation uses colour and simple brush strokes to convey movement.

Move on to introduce them to the idea of gradual movement and frames. Ask students to create their own storyboards of a figure either waving, walking, jumping, kicking or dancing (to be sketched in pencil). This could be built upon to allow students to create basic concertina 'books'

Students should then work in groups to assess their own or each others' work by looking at whether movement has been successfully conveyed. Students might assess their own and others' by finding, for each piece of work, an example of 'what went well' (w.w.w) and deciding how it could have been 'even better if'...(e.b.i).

Some more ideas

• A concertina book could be used as the starting point for a unit of work leading up to a basic Flash animation final piece.