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GCSE Media Studies Animated film

• Growing from the photographic experiments of
  Muybridge and others and the invention of
  machines like the Zooproxiscope and the Zoetrope.
  These developments can easily be demonstrated to
  students by asking them to produce a simple flick
  book. This simple process of producing single
  drawings on separate pages with subtle changes
  and then flicked quickly lays the basis for
  animation, creating movement with still images.
• The possibilties of this process soon became
  apparent as a form of public entertainment with
  the development of What the Butler saw
  machines at fairgrounds and seaside piers. The
  possibilities for linking these images to a
  narrative later developed and the animated film
  was born. Animation clearly demonstrates the
  magic of the cinema in that images are created
  to captivate audiences gathered in darkened rooms
  to entertain in a variety of ways, through
  laughter, fear and tears.

Media Studies GCSE

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GCSE Media Studies Animated film

• Animation and the Film Industry
• From Still to Moving Image
• In the early years of cinema animation was
  central to the development of film itself and
  grew to become part of the comedy feature genre.
  Film is based on the idea of the persistence of
  vision in that a single image when run
  repeatedly creates movement in time.

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History of Animated Film


In the early days of the Silent film, magic and
tricks were the key animation features. In these
early years of cinema, adults were probably the
main audience and the animated short laughettes
or laughograms as they were called became a
mainstay of the cinema programme. Often shown
before the reality film of newsreels or drama,
animated films provided humour, with slapstick
spectacles and narrative through animal
protagonists and fantastic events.
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GCSE Media Studies Animated film
Preproduction and planning for Animation
Write a proposal for a new animated
film Spidergram ideas for a new animated
film Textual research of contemporary
animation Plan a storyboard for an animated
film Through drawing, through photography Create
character designs for a new film Write an
evaluation of your planning and research
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GCSE Media Studies Animated film
Forms Styles Genres

• Stop Motion
• Cel animation
• Claymation
• Experimental
• Cut paper collage
• 3D animatiom objects
• Computer graphics
• Glass painting
• Saw dust, chalk dust ,soot

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Contemporary animation

• 2007
• Meet the Robinsons comp.an. Disney 97
• Shrek the Third Dreamworks Comp.an. 321
• Ratatouille Pixar/Disney Comp an.
• 203
• The Simpsons Movie 20th Century Fox
• 182

• Animated film Theatrical Release 2006
• Curious George Universal 58
• Ice Age 2 20th Century Fox Computer animation
  195
• The Wild Disney Computer an. 37
• Over the Hedge Dreamworks Comp an. 155
• Cars Disney Pixar Comp an 243
• A Scanner Darkly Warner Ind. Computer an.
  5
• Barnyard Paramount comp.an.
• 71
• Open Season Columbia comp an. 59

Media Studies GCSE

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GCSE Media Studies Animated film
Analysing Animated Film
Spirited Away
Genre Animation Codes and Conventions Hand
Drawn Cell animation Symbolic codes Setting Dress
codes colour Mise en scene
Audience Target Effects Everyday uses
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Organisations Distribution / Marketing
Narrative storyline/theme Characters
ProppStructure Todorov
Representations
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Analysing Spirited Away

• Genre Japanese Cel animation
• Realistic style
• Fantasy sub genre
• Narrative themes Greed/ Parents/ Children
• Characters Heroic female rescuing greedy parents
• Representations Females/ young girls

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