Using Apps to animate superhero stories

Superhero
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Villain
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Joanne Villis

AUSTRALIAN CURRICIULUM
ENGLISH (Creating Literature)
Year 2 Content Descriptor:
Create events and characters using different media that develop key
events and characters from literary texts (ACELT1593)
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from
students’ own and other cultures using visual features (ACELT1601)
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
(ACELT1794)
Superhero
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Villain
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Joanne Villis

AUSTRALIAN CURRICIULUM
MEDIA ARTS
Year 2
Use media technologies to capture and edit images, sounds and text for
a purpose (ACAMAM055)
Create and present media artworks that communicate ideas and stories
to an audience (ACAMAM056)
Year 3 & 4
Use media technologies to create time and space through the
manipulation of images, sounds and text to tell stories (ACAMAM059)
Plan, create and present media artworks for specific purposes with
awareness of responsible media practice (ACAMAM060)
SUGGESTION: Year 2 teachers could use this unit with a
focus on Fairy tales, Year 3 Superheroes/Villains and Year 4
Myths/Legends.
Superhero
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Joanne Villis

Who are super heroes?
Aim: To establish what students know about heroes.
Lesson plan:
1. Engage the class with a discussion in relation to what they know or think they know
about superheroes. During the initial stages of the discussion allows students to share
their ideas.
2. Then guide the discussion with leading questions such as:
I wonder if you have seen any super heroes on TV or in the movies. Shall we create a
list?
I wonder if you have read any stories or novels about super heroes. Shall we create a
list?
I wonder if you have ever met someone who you think is a hero (or superhero). Is
there anyone that you know who might be considered a hero?
3. Ask students to look at the list of superheroes an think about why the names of the
people/characters are considered superheroes? Break students into groups of 4, invite
one student to be a scribe and ask students to brainstorm the characteristic of super
heroes. What makes them a hero? Is it their personality, physical attributes, services
etc…
Superhero
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Villain
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Joanne Villis

Superhero
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Villain
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Joanne Villis

Who are villains?
Aim: To establish what students know about villains.
Lesson plan:
1. Engage the class with a discussion in relation to what they know or
think they know about villains. During the initial stages of the discussion
allows students to share their ideas.
2. Then guide the discussion with leading questions such as:
I wonder if you have seen any villains on TV or in the movies. Shall we
create a list?
I wonder if you have read any stories or novels about villains. Shall we
create a list?
3. Ask students to look at the list of villains an think about why
characters are considered villains? Break students into groups of 4,
invite one student to be a scribe and ask students to brainstorm the
characteristic of villains. What makes them a villain? Is it their
personality, physical attributes, services etc…
Superhero
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Villain
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Drawing cartoon superheroes
Aim: Students observe, explore and adapt different cartoon style
drawings of superheroes.
Lesson plan:
1. Show students a range of cartoon style superhero images. These can
be located easily online.
2. Use a range of instructional YouTube tutorials in order to explicitly
teach students elements of cartoon drawing. Here are some examples:
How to sketch a cartoon face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25_izEvLq8
How to draw cartoon expressions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wn9qgLaaY8
How to draw Batman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGopHhUbKMs
How to draw a superhero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N63NSfdjqwE
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Villain
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Drawing cartoon villains
Aim: Students observe, explore and adapt different cartoon style
drawings of villains.
Lesson plan:
1. Show students a range of cartoon style villain images. These can be
located easily online.
2. Use a range of instructional YouTube tutorials in order to explicitly
teach students elements of cartoon drawing. Here are some examples:
How to draw a villain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcp5ar3UQo
How to draw villains and monsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1MU-uQNbCg
How to draw villain eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7VdAmOMGMQ
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Creating Superheroes and Villains
Aim: Students use a combination of techniques taught in order to create
their own superhero and villain.
Lesson plan:
1. Ask students to draw and then paint a superhero.
2. Ask students to draw and then paint a villain.
Creating Superhero and Villain Profiles
Aim: Students give their characters an identity.
Lesson plan:
1. As a class, discuss what information is needed in order to identify with
a character (ie name, personality, occupation etc).
2. Ask students to write a character profile for their characters.
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Creating Superheroes and Villains online
Students can create and print superheros online using the ‘British Council
Style a Superhero’ website
(http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/style-hero)
or Marvel.com
(http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero ).

Creating a story line
Aim: Students establish the setting and plot for their story.
Lesson plan:
1. Show students possible settings for their story. I used
backgrounds from an iPad app called Art Maker.
As I have limited access to iPads, I created a screen capture of the
background using the camera icon within the app. I was then able to
print the backgrounds for students so that they could refer to the
backgrounds during this planning phase.
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Creating a story line
2. Give students a story line structure to follow. I used the
following:
Scene 1: Background: (student’s select)
In this scene, students introduce the superhero.
Scene 2: Background:
In this scene, students introduce the villain.
In this scene, students write what the characters are doing. Then
they introduce a problem.
Scene 4: Background: Onomatopoeia
Students had previous learnt about onomatopoeia during a poetry
unit. We decided to integrate our knowledge in this scene.
In this scene, students solve the problem. The superhero saves the
day!
Superhero
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Superhero
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Publishing the story
1. Once students have planned their story, they can use an iPad app
called Explain Everything in conjunction with Art Maker to bring
their stories to ‘life’.
a) Open the Art Maker app, select a required background and touch
the camera icon within the app. This will save the background to
your pictures. Repeat this until you have captured all of your
required backgrounds.
b) Open the Explain Everything app, select the plus button and insert a
background image from your pictures.

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c) Touch the plus button in the Explain Everything app and select new
picture. Take a photo of the character which you would like to appear
on the page. Select use photo. Then touch the snipping tool (dotted
oval) and trace around your character. This will capture your character
only and delete the unwanted background. When finished select done.
d) Down the bottom of the Explain Everything app, select the plus next
to slide to add another page. Repeat previous steps until you have all of
your pages with backgrounds and the images you need.
e) Go to slide one, select record (red circle), speak the text for this scene
(page), select the record again to stop the recording. Record the
required speech for each page.
f) When you have recorded the appropriate text for each page, export
your movie. I export movies to the camera roll and then transfer them
to a PC using the iPad’s charging cable.

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Example 1 by an 8 year old
student:
Example 2 by an 8 year old
student:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnariqVj
0V0&list=UUyTdcfnz7pwK_nwYUV6-JMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7psy
TI6mBA&list=UUyTdcfnz7pwK_nwYUV6-
JMA
Videos are embedded on the following pages.

Superhero
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Villain
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Joanne Villis
COPYRIGHT
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Adaptations and sharing of this resources is for educational purpose
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sharing or adapting this work I ask that you give credit to the original
creator, Joanne Villis at http://intertecheducation.edublogs.org/ .
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Contact details:
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jvillis@inter-tech.com.au
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