The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

A Brief History
p. 9 and 
Recommended Animators
p. 150.)
Animated Films that use fairy tales and 
pre-existing stories as a basis:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
Peter and the Wolf
Watership Down
Azur and Asmar
The Storyt
eller television series
The fairytales used came from the following sources:
The Tortoise and the Geese and other Fables of Bidpai
, retold by 
Maude Barrows Dutton (Boston: Houghton Miffl in Company, 
1908), pp. 22–23
Tikki Tikki Tembo
, retold by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent 
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968)
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
, translated by Cecil Henry Bompas 
of the Indian Civil Service (London: David Nutt, 1909) no. 146, 
pp. 372–373
Joseph Jacobs, 
More English Fairy Tales
(New York and London: 
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, n.d.), pp. 107–109. This collection was fi rst 
published in 1894
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births
, edited by 
E. B. Cowell (Cambridge University Press, 1895), book 1, no. 44

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Schemes of Work
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Storyboarding
The Bremen Town Musicians by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: 
http://www.bremen-tourismus.de/english/k1-rubrik_unter.cfm?Inde
x=1504&m=1.&RubrikID=1515&RubrikID2=&lang=eng

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The Teachers’ Animation Toolkit
Project brief:
The task was to create a 20-second TV advertisement to support 
the Arms Control Campaign. In this activity, pupils explored the use 
of animation in television advertising of products and ideas. They 
studied a number of animated commercials. They learned how to 
represent ideas and values using the moving image.
This project can become part of GCSE Art and Design or 
Photography coursework. It could also be adapted for Year 9 groups 
(age 13) and become a cross-curricular project involving Music and 
Media Studies. This scheme of work can be linked to the citizenship 
curriculum, where pupils are encouraged to discuss moral and 
social issues, by analysing information and its sources, including 
ICT-based sources.
Students devised a 30-second TV advert on a theme of Human 
Rights. They worked in groups of three or four producing an 
advertisement supporting a ‘Human Rights’ campaign. Each group 
selected one or more of the issues listed below and storyboarded a 
sequence drawing public attention to it.
1. Control Arms (joint campaign with Oxfam).
2. Stop Violence against women.
3. End the trade in confl ict diamonds.
4. Stop torture in the war on terror.
5. Refugees and asylum seekers.
6. Defend the defenders, support for human rights campaigners 
in danger.
They used one or more of the following techniques; drawn animation 
over photographed backgrounds and/or 2D cut-out animation (with 
art work from newspapers, magazines or photographic sources). 
They were given time to add their own composed music.
The objectives were:
to work collaboratively in groups working to an industry-style brief