Cover lesson · Expressive Arts · Year 5 · Intermediate
DCF: Producing → Sourcing, searching and planning digital content
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What this practises: planning a digital animation before starting it: writing success criteria, working out timings, drawing a storyboard and planning how to film. Pupils turn photos into seconds, total the film, convert seconds into minutes and seconds, work out how far to move the model between photos, and estimate how long filming will take, so the time and length work is real numeracy and is marked from the sheet.
Print: this sheet, one per pupil, and the stimulus sheet “Seren the paper dragon: film club brief”, one between two. No computers or cameras are needed. Calculators are optional for checking.
Run: 5 min read the brief together · 7 min Step 1 · 12 min Step 2 · 6 min Step 3 · 8 min Step 4 · 14 min Step 5 · 8 min Step 6. Total 60 minutes.
Collect: this sheet. Steps 1, 3, 5 and 6 show the digital planning. The numeracy evidence is Step 2 (seconds, total, minutes and seconds), Step 4 (centimetres per photo) and Step 6 (filming time in hours and minutes). Quick checks: first plan 610 photos = 61 seconds = 1 minute 1 second, 1 second (10 photos) too long; Seren moves ½ cm (5 mm) per photo; 600 photos at 20 seconds each is 3 hours 20 minutes.
The film club wants to make a stop-motion film about Seren the paper dragon. Before anyone takes a photo, the film needs a plan. You are the planner.
Write 4 success criteria for the film. A success criterion says what a good film must do, so the club can check it at the end. One is done for you.
The app plays 10 photos every second. Work out how many seconds each part lasts.
| Part | Photos | Seconds |
|---|---|---|
| Title card | 30 | |
| Scene 1 | 60 | |
| Scene 2 | 80 | |
| Scene 3 | 150 | |
| Scene 4 | 90 | |
| Scene 5 | 100 | |
| Scene 6 | 50 | |
| Credits | 50 | |
| Total |
(a) Write the total time in minutes and seconds.
(b) Does the plan follow the club rule? How much too long or too short is it, in seconds and in photos?
Change the plan so the film is no longer than 1 minute. Say which part you would cut, how many photos you would take out, and why that part.
In Scene 2, Seren walks 40 cm along the table to the window. Mr Hughes planned 80 photos for this scene.
(a) How far should Seren move between each photo? Give your answer in centimetres and in millimetres.
(b) Rhys wants to move her 2 cm each time. How many photos would Scene 2 need? How many seconds would it last? Why might it look worse?
Draw one frame for each scene. Under each, write what moves and whether it is a wide shot or a close-up.
| Scene 1 | Scene 2 | Scene 3 |
| Scene 4 | Scene 5 | Scene 6 |
(a) List 4 things the club needs before they start filming.
(b) Each photo takes about 20 seconds to set up and take. How long will it take to take 600 photos? Give your answer in seconds, then minutes, then hours and minutes.
(c) The film club meets for 40 minutes each week. How many weeks will filming take?