- The document provides instructions for students to work in pairs to brainstorm, script, and storyboard their own short animations that convey an emotion. - Students will choose an emotion as the focus, develop a plot and characters, write a script describing the animation's actions, and create a storyboard to visually plan each panel before creating the animation. - Creating a script and storyboard first is important to plan the animation's visual story and ensure the chosen emotion is effectively conveyed through elements like facial expressions, music, and sound effects.

2. Objectives
– Understand how emotions and storytelling can
be shown through animations
– Get into pairs and brainstorm ideas for your
own animation
– Choose an emotion and develop this emotion
into your story
– Start writing a script for your animation

3. The Animation Process
The animation process…

4. Animations
• Think about your favourite cartoon….
• How does your cartoon show emotions such as
happiness or sadness?
• Why do you think the following are important within
animation? Have 2 minutes of thinking time……
• music
• sound effects
• close ups
• Facial expressions/body language

5. Task One – Create a mind map
• In pairs mind map your thoughts on the plot, the
scenes, the characters and the setting
• Characters do not have to be humans, aliens etc.
They can be just blobs of clay that do so something
or turn into something. They can be fruit, simple
animals....
• You will only have the opportunity to include
background music – NOT speech!

6. Your Script – A written description of the actions
that will take place in your movie
In your pairs,
complete your
script.
You have 10
minutes

7. What is a storyboard?
• Once a script is written for a film or animation, the
next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard
visually tells the story of an animation panel by
panel, kind of like a comic book.
Your storyboard should include some of the following
information:
• What characters are in the frame, and how are they
moving?
• What changes will you make in each frame
• Where the "camera" is in the scene? Close or far
away?

8. Example of storyboard

9. You now need to start creating your own storyboard

10. PLENARY
• Why is it important to storyboard and script our
ideas before we begin to create our own animation?
• How can emotions be shown through animation?
• State something new that you have learned in
lesson?
• How did you find today's lesson activities?