Animation Competition

The competition guidelines state: "The content of your film must be linked in some way to the National Curriculum". In the case of 16+ entries, from sixth forms or colleges, will it be acceptable if the content of the film is not linked to the National Curriculum but to the students 16+ study programme e.g. A-Levels, BTEC, etc. ?

pennyk wrote:The competition guidelines state: "The content of your film must be linked in some way to the National Curriculum". In the case of 16+ entries, from sixth forms or colleges, will it be acceptable if the content of the film is not linked to the National Curriculum but to the students 16+ study programme e.g. A-Levels, BTEC, etc. ?

Yes, absolutely. The thing we want to encourage is that the content of the animation is related to the student's study programme whether its the NC or something else. I'll clarify this in our rules. Thanks!

best wishes
Toby Howard
Chair, Animation09

Does these mean my students who are creating a Flash advertisement for a company as part of their assessment would be acceptable or are you expecting them to produce a Flash file in the area of their subject eg computing

freemanc wrote:Does these mean my students who are creating a Flash advertisement for a company as part of their assessment would be acceptable or are you expecting them to produce a Flash file in the area of their subject eg computing

We're interpreting this very broadly! So assuming that your students are doing this advertisement project as part of their schooling, which is governed by their curriculum, it's fine!

best wishes
Toby

I have just taught animation to the Level 1 DiDA students at our College and they had to create a digital storybook for a target audience of their own choice. Most of them chose very young children, the story had to consist of chapters, buttons to allow the child to go back to the start of the story or to move onto another chapter but they only had to produce a 20 second finale. I know some of them have created more than 20 seconds of animation elsewhere in the book but I was just wondering whether it is worth getting them to add some further animation so that it now lasts 60 seconds or whether the animated buttons that they have used throughout their storybook would count as part of their animation. They have had to add sound to this and stop and play buttons so that the child can stop the animation whenever they want to.

I am also just about to teach animation to the BND ICT Yr1 group and their remit is to again produce a digital storybook suitable for a young audience but I could change this slightly so that the story has to be based on something that primary school children would be focussing on in the National Curriculum.

Can someone point me in the direction of the rules governing the animation ?

thanks

daviess wrote:Can someone point me in the direction of the rules governing the animation ?

thanks

Sure, please look here: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/Animation09/rules/

Cheers
Toby