The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

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Sound effect:
A sound that matches an onscreen element. For example we see 
a horse galloping and we hear the sound of it galloping; we see 
a door slam shut and we hear it slam. Sound effects can also be 
used to contradict what we see or work in less logical ways. The 
animated fi lm 
Alice
and the fi lms of Norman McLaren work well in 
this regard.
Stereotype:
A fi xed, received idea of a person or event: relates to genre and 
realism.
Stop motion:
A major mode of animation typically taking specifi cally made 
models, but not necessarily, and moving them one frame at a 
time. Examples of this technique are: 
Wallace and Gromit; The 
Nightmare Before Christmas; Alice
.
Storyboard:
A series of drawn panels that lay out the sequence of shots. Each 
image can be accompanied by written information about the 
scene and also details of scene number and any other pertinent 
information. The storyboard can be usefully fi led with the script, 
schedule and budget.
Television:
The technology that receives signals showing programs. A 
television programme suggests a certain kind of content quite 
distinct from a feature fi lm.
Timeline:
The timeline shows you when things happen. When editing, a 
timeline is a piece of information typically available to you in the 
software package that allows you to see when cuts in images 
occur and how sound and music run parallel with the images.
Ambient sound:
Sound recorded in the reality of the scene to give atmosphere: 
the sound of traffi c for example.

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Glossary of Terms
Track:
Sound and image and also a camera move where the entire 
camera moves on a horizontal or vertical plane.
Trailer:
A piece of promotional material that condenses the tone, key 
story and character points of a longer work, used for promotional 
purposes.
Video:
To video an event is to record it using a camera that records 
images onto a video tape.
Zoom:
Changing the frame size in real time to capture a detail: we can 
talk of the camera lens zooming in or out.

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Document Outline

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE: GETTING STARTED
• PART TWO: CINELITERACY
• PART THREE: ANIMATION STYLES
• PART FOUR: SCHEMES OF WORK
• PART FIVE: RESOURCES
• GLOSSARY OF TERMS