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1 Assignment brief Qualification BTEC Level 3 in Creative Media Production (Interactive Media) Unit number and title Unit 33: Stop Motion Animation Production Unit 1: Pre-production techniques Start date Deadline Assessor name Assignment title Pilot for Preschool Animation Series – Assignment 1 The purpose of this assignment is to: Develop learners’ skills in the production of stop motion animation, using traditional frame byframe methods to animate 3D materials such as objects, puppets, clay figures and other models. Enhance your organisational skills by planning the production of your stop motion animation. Scenario The BBC are looking for young animators to join their large production team and produce, at least, a 30 second pilot for a new preschool children’s animated programme. Every media production involves planning to enable the project to be successful. This process is referred to as preproduction. As part of this assignment you are required to have the knowledge and understanding of what preproduction is and how you apply it to your animation. Communication is essential when planning a production and you will need to ensure that your production team (if working individually all planning needs to be documented and evidenced) meets regularly to provide updates on preproduction tasks that are completed and outstanding. As part of your preproduction evidence, you must keep a record of meetings that take place and any decisions made and agreed on by your production team or if working individually any meetings with your client. As part of the planning for this assignment you will be involved in designing storyboards and a detailed dope sheet outlining what is required for a successful animation. As a production team (or individually) you will further develop your storyboards, dope sheets and detailed drawing of characters etc. Further development of your chosen dope sheet and storyboards will be decided through regular production team meetings. For this assignment you must research and assign production roles and produce preproduction documentation. Your group (or individually) must also produce detailed storyboards and production planning documentation in preparation for the production phase of your stop motion animation. Tasks Grading Criteria Mapping Task 1 At the first stage the BBC would like you to present to them your understanding of the techniques, the development, the developers, genres and forms of Stop Motion Animation. Examples need to be included from some of the following areas Techniques (persistence of vision, stop frame, and frame rates.) Pioneers including Joseph Plateau, Edison, Lumiere brothers and developers including Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations. Finally genres and forms for example, TV Animation and music videos. You can either produce a word processed written report or a PowerPoint Presentation for the Art Director at the BBC that shows your understanding of some of the techniques, the development, the developers, genres and forms of Stop Motion Animation. Either * Your written report or powerpoint needs to be embedded onto your U33/U1 blog as evidence OR * Your written report or powerpoint will be submitted as evidence UNIT 33 P1, M1, D1 Sources of information VLE/Moodle for all preproduction documentation and the majority of U33 resources.

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Assignment brief Qualification    BTEC Level 3 in Creative Media Production (Interactive Media) 

Unit number and title  Unit 33: Stop Motion Animation Production Unit 1: Pre-production techniques

Start date   

Deadline    

Assessor name   

 

Assignment title  Pilot for Pre‐school Animation Series – Assignment 1 

The purpose of this assignment is to:   Develop learners’ skills in the production of stop motion animation, using traditional frame by‐frame methods to animate 3D materials such as objects, puppets, clay figures and other models.  Enhance your organisational skills by planning the production of your stop motion animation. 

Scenario The BBC are looking for young animators to join their large production team and produce, at least, a 30 second pilot for a new pre‐school children’s animated programme. Every media production involves planning to enable the project to be successful. This process is referred to as pre‐production. As part of this assignment you are required to have the knowledge and understanding of what pre‐production is and how you apply it to your animation.   Communication is essential when planning a production and you will need to ensure that your production team (if working individually all planning needs to be documented and evidenced) meets regularly to provide updates on pre‐production tasks that are completed and outstanding. As part of your pre‐production evidence, you must keep a record of meetings that take place and any decisions made and agreed on by your production team or if working individually any meetings with your client.  As part of the planning for this assignment you will be involved in designing storyboards and a detailed dope sheet outlining what is required for a successful animation. As a production team (or individually) you will further develop your storyboards, dope sheets and detailed drawing of characters etc. Further development of your chosen dope sheet and storyboards will be decided through regular production team meetings.  For this assignment you must research and assign production roles and produce pre‐production documentation. Your group (or individually) must also produce detailed storyboards and production planning documentation in preparation for the production phase of your stop motion animation. 

Tasks  Grading Criteria Mapping

Task 1 

At the first stage the BBC would like you to present to them your understanding of the techniques, the development, the developers, genres and forms of Stop Motion Animation. Examples need to be included from some of the following areas Techniques (persistence of vision, stop frame, and frame rates.) Pioneers including Joseph Plateau, Edison, Lumiere brothers and developers including Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations. Finally genres and forms for example, TV Animation and music videos.  You can either produce a word processed written report or a PowerPoint Presentation for the Art Director at the BBC that shows your understanding of some of the techniques, the development, the developers, genres and forms of Stop Motion Animation.  

 Either  

* Your written report or powerpoint needs to be embedded onto your U33/U1 blog as evidence OR  * Your written report or powerpoint will be submitted as evidence  

UNIT 33 P1, M1, D1 

Sources of information  VLE/Moodle for all pre‐production documentation and the majority of U33 resources.  

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Grant J – Masters of Animation (Watson‐Guptill Publications Inc, 2001) ISBN 978‐0823030415Lord P – Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3‐D Animation, 2nd Edition (Thames & Hudson, 2004) ISBN 978‐0500511909 McFarlane T and Beck J – Outlaw Animation: Cutting‐edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals (Harry N Abrams, 2003) ISBN 978‐0810991514 Noake R – Animation: The Guide to Animated Film Techniques (McDonald and Co, 1988) ISBN 978‐0356158723 Priebe K – The Art of Stop‐Motion Animation (Delmar, 2006) ISBN 978‐1598632446  Websites www.aardman.com – the Aardman Animations website www.anim8ed.org.uk/resources_tech_3d.asp – the Anim8ed website www.filmeducation.org/primary/animation/technique.html – the animation pages of Film Education  Websites www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/Filmmakingguide – BBC information about film making www.bectu.co.uk – roles in the media industries www.celtx.com – free pre‐production software www.primary‐film‐focus.co.uk/filmpreproduction.html – information about film production techniques 

Grading Criteria 

This unit is internally assessed  Unit 33 P1: describe the techniques and development of stop motion animation with some appropriate use of subject terminology

M1: explain the techniques and development of stop motion animation with reference to detailed illustrative examples and with generally correct use of subject terminology

D1: comprehensively explain the techniques and development of stop motion animation with elucidated examples and consistently using subject terminology correctly

 Understand the techniques and development of stop motion animation  Techniques: persistence of vision; stop‐frame; frame rates Development: pioneers, eg Joseph Plateau (phenakitoscope), William Horner (zoetrope), Emile Reynaud (praxinoscope), Edward Muybridge, Edison (kinetoscope), Lumière brothers, George Pal; developers, eg Willis O’Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Jan Švankmajer; contemporary work, eg the brothers Quay, Tim Burton, Aardman Animations; genres and forms, eg TV animation, channel idents, cinema, advertising, music videos, computer games, mobile phones, websites                 

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