The Havering Film and Animation Competition (HOscars)

14 04 2009

Create a short video and get the chance to win some great prizes including

  • two-days with a professional video production company to film and edit a video for your school.
  • Apple Mac computer 
  • Apply and receive a Flip video camera. 

  Please email nsadheura.havering@lgfl.net to enter. 

 

Closing date to enter the competition and to receive a camera: Friday 26th June 2009

Closing date for film submissions: Friday 4th December 2009

 

Click here for more information

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Enter using this Entry form

 havering-film-competition-entry-form

 

Entries received by 31st July 2009 will also qualify for entry to the National film awards

 

 




National Schools Film & Animation Awards

2 04 2009

   

Deadline for entries is 31st July 2009

Building on the success of several regional Digital Movie Creator film awards organised by a number of Local Authorities, TAG Learning will be hosting a new national award to celebrate the work that pupils are doing in the classroom using digital video. For further details on this exciting award, please see  2009-film-awards-document_low-res-v1




Scratch – A free programming tool that allows the creation of animated stories, video games and interactive artwork

12 06 2008

A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed.

Primarily aimed at children, Scratch does not require prior knowledge of complex computer languages.

Instead, it uses a simple graphical interface that allows programs to be assembled like building blocks.

The digital toolkit, developed in the US at MIT’s Media Lab, allows people to blend images, sound and video.

“Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people – it’s only for a special group with technical expertise and experience,” said Professor Mitchel Resnick, one of the researchers at the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT.

“We have developed Scratch as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.”

Read all about Scratch and see how easy it is to use

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6647011.stm?lsm

Download Scratch for free

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Find out how to use Scratch

http://scratch.wik.is/Support

If you are interested in using it with pupils please tell your HIAS ICT Team, we would love to hear from you.

dsmith.havering@lgfl.net




Would you like to save YouTube files to your computer? Try Miro…

12 06 2008

Would you like to be able to download video files from YouTube, TeacherTube etc to save them onto your computer? Then have a look at Miro…

http://www.getmiro.com/




Dr Who – Create Your Own Trailer

21 05 2008

Calling all Dr Who fans. Have a go at creating your own Dr Who trailer on the BBC website. The Dr Who Trailer Maker is an easy way to bring film editing into your classroom. Students can bring together clips and photos to make their own short film. There are also tips on improving their work which could help students evalaute their own or others’ work.

Link to website