Animating your own story

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There are lots of simple ways to create your own animation, and tell your own story. Here are some examples.

Little Red Riding Hood

Here a primary school narrated their own paintings to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood

A Day with Aaron

This was a language development project by The Play House. Although created with older students with special needs attending Calthorpe School in Birmingham, it shows how a stop motion animated film can be created using a story generated by participants. It used the open source software SAM animation.

Why don’t you send us examples of what you’ve created? You can e-mail us here.

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Storytelling through objects – classic TV examples

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Bagpuss

Bagpuss and his friends in the shop came to life when a new object was found, and told fantastical stories inspired by the simplest of artefacts. Here are two classic examples:

Elephant

The Ballet Shoe

Fingerbobs

Fingerbobs was a 70s TV series that told stories through objects found by a range of characters. The animals – notably Fingermouse – were obviously human hands made into a character by the simplest of paper additions, and told a story through objects they found.

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25 years of bringing the curriculum to life

June 14th, 2011

September sees Language Alive!‘s 25th year of bringing the curriculum to life across Birmingham and the West Midlands. We’ve just released next year’s programmes which are available to book. Apologies for the delay – funding, as you’d appreciate, has been a bit scarce, but we’ve been able to raise enough to keep school contributions the [...]

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