Digital Animation

Using ICT-based animation within the classroom may seem to be a big challenge to the busy practitioner. This workshop dealt with various ways of getting started with ICT animation using approaches that are relevant to the Art curriculum. We used Photoshop and Flash software. One approach was to ask participants to take a series of digital still images which they get the computer to animate. We then built on the concept of a timeline and showed how Flash can be used to create a variety of different animations. - Ed Hunton, Richard Knights & Alistair Fitchett

Anti-narrative: Games, Blogs & other Non-linear Forms

‘Narrative cannot survive the Moment of Information’, so said the cultural critic Walter Benjamin, talking of film in its early days. Today the same claims are being made, but this time in relation to the internet, mobile phones and other information and communication devices. - Dr Caroline Bassett

Digital Storytelling – Using Podcasting and Vodcasting

This session explored the use of Podcasting and Vodcasting as vehicle for digital storytelling and ways that still images, audio and video can be combined to communicate strong narratives and messages in the classroom. - David Baugh

Critical Transformations Intertextuality in the Digital Age

"This workshop set out to explore what we might mean by ‘reading’ in a society where much of the information received by citizens comes from multimodal sources. It began from the premise that current assessment models of ‘reading’, and associated panics about low levels of literacy, are founded on a limited notion of what it is to be a reader in a digital age." - Martin Phillips

20 Shots

"This workshop will look at the idea of the camera frame – how you actually decide on what type of shot you can film (the aesthetic possibility). Through an exercise which combines both shooting and editing material, delegates explored the visual possibilities with regard to the selection of possible shots and different ways of editing these shots together." - Ian Wall

Asking the Questions

One of the earliest questions asked by children is ‘why?’ And this is the very question that we need to ask about moving image texts. Why is a particular camera angle chosen? Why are particular objects placed within a frame? And why are they placed where they are? Why is the camera placed in a certain position? Why does a particular character wear what they are wearing? - Ian Wall