Storyboarding — Planning Your Animation
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Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.
- 11 questions
- 35 marks
- about 40 minutes
- marked instantly
Question types: short answer, multiple choice, true or false, fill the gap, matching.
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Which statement correctly describes the difference between a scene and a shot?
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About this resource
Animation & Storytelling — Lesson 2 of 6. Planning an animation before making it: scenes, shots, camera angles, captions and timing, using the platform's Storyboard Studio. Pupils plan a storyboard, ready to build in Animation Studio next lesson.
13 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook — Stick Figures
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Quick Check — Storyboard Vocabulary
- Storyboard — What It Is and What It Is Not
- Camera Angles — Telling the Story Visually
- Task 1 (guided) — Sort the Shots by Camera Angle
- Example Storyboard — 'The Lost Key'
- Task 2 (semi-guided) — Read the Storyboard
- Hinge Check — What Makes a Good Storyboard?
- Task 3 (independent) — Plan It: Your Own Storyboard
- Plenary — 3-2-1
Unit bundleAnimation
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