2.7 Storytelling and Animation

• Storytelling as a means of communication
• Techniques: voice, body, songs, audience involvement, props and costumes
• Storyline: beginning, middle, end; character, setting, plot, theme from 1.2
• Composing a 3 to 5-minute story on a social issue (PCI)
• Qualities of a good flipbook: sequence, position, craft, binding
• Creating a flipbook animation for the story
• Warm-up, rehearsal and performing the story before an audience

• describe techniques used in storytelling
• explain qualities of a good flipbook
• compose a 3 to 5-minute story addressing an issue in society
• create a flipbook animation for storytelling
• perform a 3 to 5-minute story before an audience
• realise storytelling as a means of communication

“How can storytelling be made interesting?”

“How can flip book animation be used in storytelling?”

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1. Storytelling as communication
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A story is a message from a teller to an audience. Grade 7 will use it to address a social issue, not only to joke.
2. Voice technique
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Make a story interesting with volume, pace, pause, pitch and a character voice - without a 5-minute shout or a mock accent.
3. Body technique
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Use still focus, one clear gesture, levels and an open space. Mime a school moment without hitting or blocking the audience.
4. Song, audience, props, costume
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Add at most one or two extras: a chant, a planned audience question, a found prop, a decent costume piece. They must serve the issue.
5. Beginning, middle, end
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A 3-5 minute story needs a spine: who/where/issue, a growing problem and choice, a result and theme. Invent characters.
6. Compose the 3-5 minute story
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Pick one social issue, invent who and where, write three beats, plan one extra technique, and time a read-through toward 3-5 minutes.
7. Qualities of a good flipbook
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A good flipbook sequences small changes, keeps position, is crafted, and binds so it riffles. It serves one story moment.
8. Draw the sequence
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Draw 16-24 same-size pages of one action with small changes and a stable position. Pencil, number the backs, trace then shift.
9. Bind and riffle
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Collate, bind one edge, riffle at a steady speed. Use the book at one moment in the story, not through the whole telling.
10. Warm up and rehearse
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Warm voice and body, run beginning-middle-end with the riffle, time 3-5 minutes, and take one partner note.
11. Perform the story
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Perform 3-5 minutes before an audience. Realise communication if they can name the issue. Appreciate technique and message. Optional consented recording.