Catch A LOT
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This animation was created by a group of students in their final year of studies at ArtFx School artfx.fr.
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This short film tells of two whalers. A father and son team who have differing opinions about their jobs.
The film doesn't have any dialogue and uses body language to show feelings. This allows the teacher to demonstrate this. Children can then write their own. Describing a characters body and movements rather than their mood. |
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Use the image (right) to practise writing dialogue. Firstly, ask the children to draw/add speech bubbles. Secondly, act out the dialogue in pairs. Then discuss conventions of writing speech in narrative and share rules such as; new speaker, new line, use of inverted commas and commas etc.
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The weather and the sea mirror the mood and feelings of the characters. Demonstrate this whilst watching the film and then ask children to write character descriptions whilst mentioning the weather.
Children could write a persuasive argument against whaling or from the son to the father asking to be allowed to pursue a new career. They could also persuade the boy that his job is much better than some other Victorian child jobs such as chimney sweep or coal miner.
Write alternative endings - stop when all goes black - Children write their own ending before watching the actual animated version. Ideas such as 'heroes' live inside whale like Jonah or catch the biggest whale ever etc.
Write newspaper reports - Use the ideas above and the children write journalistic reports including interviews with the characters.
Children could write a persuasive argument against whaling or from the son to the father asking to be allowed to pursue a new career. They could also persuade the boy that his job is much better than some other Victorian child jobs such as chimney sweep or coal miner.
Write alternative endings - stop when all goes black - Children write their own ending before watching the actual animated version. Ideas such as 'heroes' live inside whale like Jonah or catch the biggest whale ever etc.
Write newspaper reports - Use the ideas above and the children write journalistic reports including interviews with the characters.