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Year 4 and their Stop Frame Animation

December 9th 2011 in Film and Media

Some children from Year 4 have spent this term getting to grips with making Stop Frame Animations. They created a character called Bob the Bookcase Kid and modelled him from Newplast. The group then split into two and used a digital camera to take lots of photos of their character moving. The put these into [...]

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Year 1 film crews

June 9th 2011

Today some children from each year one class have had their first attempt at making a film. During PPA they filmed each other using a simple animation programme called 2Animate. Their camera.. An iPad 2 using the camera function and a basic version of iMovie! 20110610-092839.mov 20110610-081448.mov 20110610-081149.mov 20110610-080832.mov 20110610-081354.mov

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Year Five News Report

May 20th 2011

FInally, after lots of technical hitches, Year 5 have produced their first News Report. Unfortunately the sound didnt pick up too well, but they worked really hard and have enjoyed their first go at making a news film. Year 5 News Report from jayne scannali on Vimeo. Make sure you turn your volume up!!

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Year 6 have been playing with Landscapes

May 20th 2011

Year 6 children have been playing around with Photoshop altering landscapes. They have used Paint Shop Pro 9 and  played about with negative effects, colour and saturation to produce some lovely images. To view this photo slideshow you need to have Flash Player 9 or newer installed and JavaScript enabled. With PhotoSnack you can create [...]

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More news – fooball special!

May 26th 2010

The news team have been working hard to bring you a news special about our Wetton trophy football success.  

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Chorlton Park News Updates

March 25th 2010

Just in case you haven’t caught our new reports on the big screen in the dining room, and you havent seen the link on the news blog to our film page, here are two News updates. A group of intrepid reporters have been working with Mrs Scannali to write and produce a short fim report which [...]

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Scratch and the Digital Animation Competition

March 24th 2010

Year 6 have being using Scratch again this year to create a one minute animation. This years work has been about the Vikings. We thought that Owen in 6MG made a wonderful animation with very little help and we have entered it into the annual Digital Animation Competition run by the University of Manchester. Let’s hope [...]

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Comic Life in Year 5

March 2nd 2010

In the Autumn Term, Year 5 looked at writing fairy tales. They chose from a set of  pictures and used Comic Life to re-tell the story as  a comic. They had great fun making their comics look interesting and used connectives and scene setters to help tell their stories. Jude’s Gingerbread Man   by Gurdavpal

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Year 6 use Paint Shop Pro

March 2nd 2010

Last term Year 6 used Paint Shop Pro to learn to layer images. First they created a background using various paint tools, then layered an image of a famous landmark on top. They then rubbed out part of the top layer to let their background show through and applied special effects to the image. They [...]

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