{"id":1285,"date":"2011-05-05T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2011-05-05T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:44:06","slug":"oild-how-could-our-pupils-make-an-animation-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/oild-how-could-our-pupils-make-an-animation-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil&#8217;d &#8211; How Could Our Pupils Make an Animation Like This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by the representation of data using infographics. I like their bold visual approach and how the style and composition signals the content it is communicating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arbitrarydomain.com\/\">Chris Harmon<\/a> a designer and animator from the Greater New York City area created this beautiful and thought provoking animation called Oil&#8217;d. It explores how dependent we are to oil and how much was lost into the ocean from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/special_reports\/oil_disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deepwater Horizon oil disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22655744?portrait=0\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22655744\">Oil&#8217;d<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/harmondesign\">Chris Harmon<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just from the presentation of information about the oil spill we could go in many different directions with our classes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exploring he sources of information used<\/li>\n<li>Verifying the accuracy of the data included in the film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However if we unpick the animation layer by layer we get a much better idea of the great skill with which Chris used to complete it. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to have Chris in front of a class of students explaining how he went about creating the animation, the stages of planning and execution.<\/p>\n<p>For me there are many elements and skills that would on their own make excellent projects for children to explore and be engaged in:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data<\/strong><br \/>\nThe maths involved in comparing and cross referencing the data, and what so many good infographic do the data-metaphor, juxtaposing information against something we find easy to refer to. For example the number of plastic bottles inside the Empire State Building, which we know is big!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authentic information and research<\/strong><br \/>\nFinding accurate information and data would be another important skill that would challenge a student to create something equally authentic and meaningful. We have the tools with which to find huge amounts of information and data but we need to know how to filter it. I don&#8217;t think teaching children how to search is enough, that is the first step, it is how we then process that information that needs time to be demonstrated and improved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Persuasion<\/strong><br \/>\nWith my literacy hat on this animation pushes us to consider the impact of oil on our lives and has a strong persuasive message. The art of persuasive writing and in this case the careful scripting would be great to develop in this sort of medium, perhaps about a local issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animation<\/strong><br \/>\nThe artwork and animation are obviously professional, but there is much to explore about the use of colour to convey meaning and an overall message. The colour schemes remind me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingearth.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breathing Earth<\/a> which also depicts an environmental message. It would be good for children to explore symbols and how we might convey a message in a visual way &#8211; a comparison type task would fit well here.<\/p>\n<p>I think this animation is a great example of the sort of cross-curricular, multi-skill outcome that should be challenging our pupils in our schools. Making an animated infographic film about a local issue would cover so much. Furthermore if you had the opportunity to involve expertise, like Chris Harmon&#8217;s, it would provide that spark that would spur such a project onwards even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by the representation of data using infographics. I like their bold visual approach and how the style and composition signals the content it is communicating. Chris Harmon a designer and animator from the Greater New York City area created this beautiful and thought provoking animation called Oil&#8217;d. It explores how dependent we are&#x2026; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-container wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/oild-how-could-our-pupils-make-an-animation-like-this\/\" class=\"more-link wp-block-button__link has-small-font-size\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oil&#8217;d &#8211; How Could Our Pupils Make an Animation Like This?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,19,31],"tags":[401,358,66,89,718,404,405,724,199],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum","category-literacy","category-science","tag-animation","tag-art","tag-data","tag-film","tag-literacy","tag-oil","tag-persuasion","tag-science","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}