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studentworkshops 2010

Title: Animation: Stop Motion

Description:
Create a short animation using freely available stop motion software. Add sound effects and titles. End the day with a mini film festival.

Software:
Monkey Jam (Free) and Vegas

Outcome:
Pairs of students create a short one-minute animation

Year Level: Y4 - Y7

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: Create a Symphony of Four, One Minute Movements Using Acid

Description:
Students create a mini symphony of four short movements. The inspiration is a series of photographs designed to evoke emotional responses.

Software:
Acid

Outcome:
Pairs of students create a four-minute symphony

Year Level: Y5 - Y10

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: Make Animated Films using Computer Games

Description:
Write a script and capture parts of a computer game to create a 3D animated movie in the modern art form of Machinima.

Software:
Game Cam (Free), Computer Game and Vegas

Outcome:
Pairs of students create a two-minute computer-animated film

Year Level: Y5 - Y10

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: Create a Podcast and Podcasting Channel

Description:
Each student learns how to create and design content for their own podcasting channel. Add music, picture and text to their own Podcasting site.

Software:
Game Cam (Free), Computer Game and Vegas

Outcome:
Students create content of a podcast and upload their content to a Podcasting channel.

Year Level: Y5 - Y10

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: 3D Building in a Virtual World

Description:
Spend the day building and designing a 3 dimensional object in a virtual world. Capture screen shots of student work and load the pictures into a comic book layout and annotate the images. (This virtual world is self contained and not connected to the internet}.

Software:
Secondlife Viewer(Free), Opensim

Outcome:
Students capture images from inside the 3-D world of what they have created

Year Level: Y7 - Y10

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: Crazy Talk: Animate Photos to Talk

Description:
Students bring digital photography (pets, family members) and animate the photos so they can talk. Students create the dialogue and stories they would like the photos to tell.

Software:
Crazy Talk, Vegas

Outcome:
Create a short animated film using photos

Year Level: Y4 - Y6

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: Comic Life: Create a Comic Book Using Greenscreen

Description:
Students write a simple script and capture themselves in various poses in front of the green screen. Add interesting background and compile the images into a Comic Book with dialogue bubbles.

Software:
Comic Life, Vegas

Outcome:
Created a printed comic book

Year Level: Y5 - Y10

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $495 per class of up to 26 students

Title: Create a Pop Song using Acid – 2 Day Course

Description:
Students spend the first day creating samples from existing CDs and combining them with pre-recorded loops to create the foundation of a pop song.  Day two is used to write and record their own performances (vocals, guitar, piano etc.) to their songs before they are edited and mixed.

Software:
Sony Acid

Outcome:
The students will have a thorough grounding and understanding of the sampling and recording aspects of Sony Acid.

Year Level: Y10 - Y12

Time: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm Cost: $895 per class of up to 26 students

NOTE: The 2 days of this course do not have to be consecutive.