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Animation Project Requirements and Instructions

Due Dates:

Project Proposal due for T2 by Thursday, February 8th. I must approve your topic before you get too far into your project!

Storyboard due doe T2 Friday, February 9th.

Completed Project due for T2 on or before Thursday, March 8th.

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Requirements:

Proposal, Storyboard, Animation, and Presentation.

Proposal: Print out a proposal and fill in the form.

Storyboards:
Storyboards are graphic organizers that show the scenes in the animation in a rough sketch. A storyboard will help you visualize the complete animation and keep you on track. Making small adjustments along the way are easier than huge fixes toward the end of your project. You will be given a storyboard template to print out and use. You will submit all storyboards as part of your final project.

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Animation:
1. Your topic must illustrate something that you are certain is appropriate for all audiences at school. Random acts and violent scenes are not appropriate.

2.You must submit your storyboard. you may make some changes to your storyboard along the way. Keep in mind that this is a 4 week projects and you are expected to use all of your time. Do not keep changing the project and starting over.

3. Your completed animation must not be shorter than 30 seconds or longer than 2 minutes. Your project must have a title screen and have automatic transitions. You may use a different timing for each slide, and the best flow is to set timing at 0 (ZERO) between slides. No matter what the setting, your show must run by itself.

4. You must use hand drawn elements or characters. This includes creating characters and objects from the shapes in PowerPoint.

5. If you use sound or special effects, they must all add to and not detract from your animation.

6. If your topic is ELA, math, science, social studies or ties to any encore area, you will get extra credit. You may also chose to produce a public service announcement. Here is a list of topics. For extra credit it must be clear how your project follows this content area and the teacher must sign your proposal and help score your finished project. Curriculum related project ideas.

Curriculum related project ideas include, but are not limited to:

Science:
Illustrating a science experiment
Planetary movement or Seasons
Animate a cell or a cell reproducing
What happens in an earthquake or tsunami
Erosion
Volcano eruption
Light or Color or Electricity
Water cycle
Life cycle of a frog or butterfly
Weather – a hurricane, a tornado, a “nor’easter”

Math:
Solving a math equation so others could learn
Fractions – Pizza
Order of operations
Golden Ratio – Fibonacci
Imaginary and complex numbers
Infinity
Large numbers
Negative numbers
Prime numbers
Rational and irrational numbers

ELA:
Step by step directions for ___
Write or animate a fairy tale, myth or fable.
Illustrate a character (or chapter) from a book you are reading.
Write and animate illustrations for a poem.
Animate a scene from a play that you have read.
Illustrate the many meanings of the word “ground” or ______.
Animate a book review.

Social Studies:
Biography
Branches of government
Ancient civilizations
A current event or a public service announcement (reasons not to smoke, dangers of driving drunk, fire safety at home, CO2 safety at home, stranger danger, self protection)

PSA ideas:
Don't Smoke
What is Good Nutrition?
Don't Drop Out of School
Don't Drink and Drive
Work Hard in School
Read
Exercise