The 21st century excuse for students. Send your lecturers an intentionally corrupt file so you can have a few extra days to finish the paper.
The Australian Children's Television Foundation has some new resources for school teachers that have links to Western Australian productions.
Popular kids show 'Lockie Leonard' has a multi literacy teaching and resource DVD that including lessons and activities that can be used teachers focussing on English, Media Studies, Personal Development and Values education as well as interative content for students. All together the two disc resource has 43 question sheets and 88 different worksheets that can be used in the classroom. The resource recently was awarded the Best Secondary education Resource at the 2008 ATOM Awards.
Meanwhile in the animation world, Dogstar has a free online teaching resource that can be used by primary school teachers. The series can be used a s agood springboard for classroom discussions about the environment, sustainability, ecology and technology.
Popular kids show 'Lockie Leonard' has a multi literacy teaching and resource DVD that including lessons and activities that can be used teachers focussing on English, Media Studies, Personal Development and Values education as well as interative content for students. All together the two disc resource has 43 question sheets and 88 different worksheets that can be used in the classroom. The resource recently was awarded the Best Secondary education Resource at the 2008 ATOM Awards.
Meanwhile in the animation world, Dogstar has a free online teaching resource that can be used by primary school teachers. The series can be used a s agood springboard for classroom discussions about the environment, sustainability, ecology and technology.
Last year we introduced an exciting new program at FTI, 'No Strait Jacket'. You can read more about it here, or even enrol for the next session which is coming up soon. Here's some photo's from last years sessions.
Each year in our animation program we make a trip to the Zoo. it's a great opportunity to draw from life, we begin the trip in the reptile house where everything stays pretty still and work our way up to the monkeys.
The finished films from the WAM! BAM! competition can now be seen online.
Here's the winning film 'Kokarokadoo' plus 'Spermicide', 'Bee Titlated', 'Life Cycle of Bertram Beetle' and 'Crouching Tiger, Squatting Gorilla'
Here's the winning film 'Kokarokadoo' plus 'Spermicide', 'Bee Titlated', 'Life Cycle of Bertram Beetle' and 'Crouching Tiger, Squatting Gorilla'
Documentary filmmaker Megan Spencer has launched a new site that is linked to James Bogle's new feature film 'Closed for Winter'. The site features behind the scenes interviews and a discussion forum.
'Closed for Winter' starring Natalie Imbruglia opens nationally on April 23rd.
'Closed for Winter' starring Natalie Imbruglia opens nationally on April 23rd.
The Knight Citizen News Network has launched a new set of resources on how to interview people, whether your a citizen journalist or a professional interviewer there is great information and adivce within.
It's the last day of the 3 day WAM! BAM! challenge and only a few minutes remain until the deadline. It looks like all five of the teams participanting are going to have something to show.
The screening is at the FTI Cinema at 7pm tonight.
The screening is at the FTI Cinema at 7pm tonight.
So the way this competition works is that each team is given three words on Friday night, and by Sunday night they have to present a completed short animation.
Here's the teams completing, The Interpixels which is Gareth, Lindsay and Lisa scored the words 'tiger', 'coup' and 'mistake'.
The second team is The Mad Toons comprising Michael, Andrew and Daniel whose words are 'tire', 'cockeral' and 'crerate'.
The third team is The Immaculate Conception which is Mathew, Jeff, Bodie and Adam. Their words are 'flagilate', 'tint' and 'corpse'.
The fourth team is The Fremantle Entamology Centre which includes Liam, Madeline and Simon. They were given the words 'mutate', 'court' and tick'.
The final team is Beyond Motion which is made up of Buddhi, Andi, Mark and Andrew. Their wrds are 'cook', 'titilate' and 'congugate'.
Some of the teams are made of people who knopw each other and work together reguarly, others have just met last night. You might think that established teams have an adventage, but the winner last year was an improptu team.
Everyone stopped working on their project when the Beyond Motion team started their motion capture as everyone was eager to see it in progress. Now as the sun starts to go down the pressure is beginning to build.
For the latest update why not take a look at our Twitter posts.
Here's the teams completing, The Interpixels which is Gareth, Lindsay and Lisa scored the words 'tiger', 'coup' and 'mistake'.
The second team is The Mad Toons comprising Michael, Andrew and Daniel whose words are 'tire', 'cockeral' and 'crerate'.
The third team is The Immaculate Conception which is Mathew, Jeff, Bodie and Adam. Their words are 'flagilate', 'tint' and 'corpse'.
The fourth team is The Fremantle Entamology Centre which includes Liam, Madeline and Simon. They were given the words 'mutate', 'court' and tick'.
The final team is Beyond Motion which is made up of Buddhi, Andi, Mark and Andrew. Their wrds are 'cook', 'titilate' and 'congugate'.
Some of the teams are made of people who knopw each other and work together reguarly, others have just met last night. You might think that established teams have an adventage, but the winner last year was an improptu team.
Everyone stopped working on their project when the Beyond Motion team started their motion capture as everyone was eager to see it in progress. Now as the sun starts to go down the pressure is beginning to build.
For the latest update why not take a look at our Twitter posts.
The animation is well underway with five teams in the game. The team comprising Gareth Lockett, Lisa Evans and Lindsay Fleay have de-camped to the Interzone Office, while four teams remain at the FTI Animation Centre.
Two are working in flash, one in stop motion and and the other in motion capture 3D. It's a busy hub of activity as models are made, sets are built, sensors are calibrated, sounds are recorded and stylus furiously draw over Wacom tablets.
Two are working in flash, one in stop motion and and the other in motion capture 3D. It's a busy hub of activity as models are made, sets are built, sensors are calibrated, sounds are recorded and stylus furiously draw over Wacom tablets.
