Animation Club - First Post

The Animation Club that I mentioned in an earlier blog is going ahead. I visited the school and spoke to the teacher in charge. We discussed the structure and, because it is an after-school club lasting for an hour and a quarter, we decided to get straight on with the animation so we have something completed by Christmas. 

Made with my Nosferatu model

I am not going to approach this in my usual way :-
         1. General Introduction
         2. A History of Animation
         3. The Story (and storyboarding)
         4. Set construction, props and characters
         5. Animation (software, practicalities and doing it)
         6. Audio - sound effects, narration and dialogue
         7. Titles and credits
         8. The Premieres

Instead, because of constraints with hardware, software and finances, we're going to use PowerPoint. I have high expectations because the pupils will come without preconceptions and embrace the task which involves Superheroes (commercial* or of their own invention).
My preparation involves:-
      images : backgrounds; props; characters; anim gifs, 
                   photographs or scans
      story and storyboards
      sound effects, narration**, dialogue** and music*
* -copyright!
** - we'll use Audacity for these as it's a free download

I'll post how we get on and, for those of you who'd like more info, I'll add in blogs about the History of Animation, examples of software (see some previous posts too) and on some of the practicalities based on my past experiences.