The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

Materials:
Data Projector, whiteboard or screen and sound, paper and pens
Resources:
Peter and the Wolf
directed by Suzie Templeton
Available on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sergei-
Prokofi evs-Peter-Wolf-DVD/dp/B001RNXZ06/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8
&qid=1289826303&sr=8–2

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The Teachers’ Animation Toolkit
WORKSHEET: COMPOSE A 15-SECOND LEITMOTIV
Teachers’ note:
This activity is a creative music-making exercise, allowing students 
to begin composing music for a particular character, place or idea. 
Ask the students to each select one of these animal haikus as a 
starting point for the composition.
The Wolf
A silver grey wolf
Howls an eerie, spooky howl
Staring at the moon
The Snake
Slithering, hissing
Tasting the air with its tongue
Swallows a mouse whole
The Golden Eagle
The golden eagle
Swooping down to catch a mouse
Feeds it to its young
The Sharks
A great white shark here
A grey reef shark over there
The lords of the sea

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Provide a selection of musical instruments. Depending on the 
resources at your disposal, either invite the students to rehearse 
and perform their leitmotiv live, or record each using a camcorder 
or computer with a separate microphone and headphones. It helps 
if each student or small team takes turns to devise and record their 
leitmotiv in a quiet room.
Materials:
Musical instruments, a quiet room, sound recording equipment
(See 
5.2 Recording and Editing Sound
for further 
technical advice.)

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