Issued to accompany and support the winter 2015 ‘play date’ screenings of The Big Knights – a feature-length compilation of highlights from the 1999 animation series of the same name, from the team that would go on to create Peppa Pig.

The Big Knights Education Package is intended for cinema operators and school groups, and aims to introduce the basics of animation to young people, enabling them to explore the process of bringing ideas from script to screen.

This 53-page PDF document contains the following:

Worksheets – These can be printed off and used with minimal staffing – Colouring – Storyboards – Comic Strips – Create a Character – Create your own Story – Create a Map of an Imaginary World – Express Yourself – Design Some Armour

Toolkits – These are sessions that will require more resources and support – Make a mask – What will Doris Eat – Flipbooks – Thaumatropes – Paper Puppets – Pitch an Animated Series

Sessions with a practitioner – These are led sessions – Developing stories – Foley sound – Hand drawn animation – Animation with cut outs – Pixillation

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