Behind the scenes look at student learning using safe school travel as a curriculum context.

1. The Making of the ‘Road Safety Crew’
Monday, 24 October 2011

2. Our first ideas about how children could make safer
journeys.
Monday, 24 October 2011

3. We started to explore more ideas.
Our teacher asked us ‘How could we tell a story, about
children making safe journeys, in an interesting way?’
Monday, 24 October 2011

4. Ryan B started to write a story about children making
safe journeys.
We read his story and started to make storyboards.
Monday, 24 October 2011

5. We made a list of all the artworks that needed to be
created for the movie.
Monday, 24 October 2011

6. We decided to have a ‘Road Safety Crew’ to teach
children about keeping safe.
We had the Wheel Ninja, Car Hippie and Road Alien.
‘Car Hippie’‘Wheel Ninja’
Monday, 24 October 2011

7. The characters had to be about 26cm in height.
Monday, 24 October 2011

8. We drew characters that
were skateboarders, the
safety crew, people on
scooters, pedestrians and
all the props.
Monday, 24 October 2011

9. Our finished puppets and props ready for filming.
Monday, 24 October 2011

10. To make the backgrounds we first drew them in pencil
and then went over the lines with black vivid.
Monday, 24 October 2011

11. Then we all helped to colour in the backdrops.
We then used dye to make the backdrops look more
colourful.
Monday, 24 October 2011

12. This is the set for our movie, we used different
backdrops for different scenes.
Monday, 24 October 2011

13. More scenes and some of the puppeteers.
Monday, 24 October 2011

14. After filming we
edited our movie.
Ryan B wrote the
script and we
recorded our
voices.
Monday, 24 October 2011

15. We all had lots of fun making ‘The Road Safety Crew.’
©FreevilleWood Studio 8 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011