Emotions in Motion

Art: Unit 6A: People in action

Learning Objective:
To explore how movement can be expressed in their own work and find out how movement can be shown in different kinds of art, in particular sculpture.

Citizenship: Unit 11: In the media - what’s the news?

Learning Objective:
To understand that artists can use their work to comment on topical issues in the media.

ICT: Unit 5A: Graphical modelling & Unit 6A: Multimedia presentation

Learning Objective:
To use ICT software and skills to create their own art work through animation.
To develop new and existing ICT skills. 

In addition to this, the learning package can be used to support a variety of cross curricular projects and learning.

Activity 1 - Talk about:
Use the suggested questions to investigate the concept of sculpture and introduce movement and emotions in art.     Activity 1 - Talk About (42 kb)

Activity 2 - Observe, Compare and Research:
Use the suggested questions and activities to make observations, comparisons and research sculpture, artists, movements in art to encourage skills development.   Activity 2 - Observe, Compare and Research (46 kb)

Activity 3 - Digital Emotions
Using a digital camera, ask pupils to photograph a friend or group of friends to create a sequence of motions which express an emotional response. Use ICT software to create an animated sequence or short film expressing different emotions using images, text and music.

Activity 4 - 3D Emotions in the Media
Research and discuss topical issues that interest pupils from local and national newspapers and magazines. Look at how the media portray different viewpoints and how this can affect society. Discuss different emotions and relationships within the articles chosen.

Ask pupils to select a media article that they have a connection with, and can relate to the relationships and emotions portrayed in the article. From this encourage pupils to develop their skills through creating a large scale 3D model which expresses movement and emotion made from recycled materials, clay or other modelling materials.

Activity 5 - Emotions in Writing:
Write a piece of creative writing inspired by the sculpture and/or topical issues within the media. Consider poetry, a short story or a front page article for a newspaper. Use ICT software to present the final draft of creative writing using text and images.

Activity 6 – Emotion and Motion Collage

Study and collect different examples of movement and emotions from magazines, comics, newspapers, look at images from different historic periods, sporting events and cultures to discuss as a class or groups.  From examples record and draw in sketchbooks or art ideas books then create a class emotion collage.  Link art work to discussions about emotions in Citizenship and PSHE lessons.