Detailed Lesson Plan in Computer Animation

I. Content and Materials:

How to plan in creating your own computer animation

Materials:
PowerPoint presentation, projector, laptop, Adobe Flash, and marker

II. Learning objectives:

1. Discuss in class the capabilities of the Adobe Flash in creating an
animation
2. Identify what are the things that need to be considered before
creating an animation.
3. To develop the student’s creativity skills by challenging the student’s
imagination on why there is a need to prepare for creating an
animation.

III. Learning Plan:

Teacher’s activity Student’s activity

A. Motivation

Good Morning Class!

Good Morning Sir!

Before we proceed with our lesson for

this day. I would like to ask…. Have you
Students answered “An
ever heard of Adobe Flash? What do
application/program. It is about making an
think it is about?
animation.

Very good! That is correct. Now, I

would like to ask you if have seen an
animation.
 Some Student answered: Yes Sir!

Great! Would you like to give me an

example who have seen an animation
in the internet
Student1 answered: Sir! I watched some
animation from youtube.

Very nice! Thank you for sharing. See, the

creator of the people who uploaded
videos in youtube are also the one
creating the animation themselves.

A. Proper Discussion:
Now our lesson for today is about
what are the steps in creating your
first animation using Adobe Flash.

Open your books in Page 2 Students retrieve their book while listening
and taking down notes.

“What is the capabilities of Adobe

Flash”
Students 2 asked: Sir! What are the things
that Adobe Flash can do?

Well, Adobe Flash can do a lot of

things in terms of multimedia
platform. It can be used for creating
website, games, advertisement or the
best one yet animations.

Write on the whiteboard “The four

flash file - .FLA, .SWF, .FLV and the .AS
file

Student 3 asked: Sir, are the difference

 between the four different types.

Well, that’s a good question. First

the .FLA is can only be used by the
Flash program only, this is the file
where you are still creating your
animation. Second is the .SWF which
contains videos and vector based
animation. Third is the .FLV which is
strictly for video only. Last is the .AS
file which contains interactive codes
that can be used to control Flash
Application.

Write on the whiteboard “The

planning phase”

Things need to consider in creating an

animation movie.
1. Conceptualizing

Class, can you give me an idea or opinion

Student1 answered: Superheroes fighting
what would like to make an animation of?
crime
Writes on the board: Student2 answered: A father going back

1. Superheroes home
Student3 answered: Toys are actually alive.
2. Father
3. Toys

Okay. Thank you for the suggestions. Now

I would like to ask you to combine
these three ideas and try to come up a
story about three.
 Student4 answered: A story about a father
Write the idea on the board.
who is secretly becomes a toy that grants
him the ability to fly.
2. Researching context

Now that we have an idea what to create.

I would like to ask you what are the
things needed to fully realize this idea.

Student1 answered: Sir! We will be needing

Nice student 3. First, we will need a story. characters

Student2 answered: Backgrounds
We will need to create a storyboard to
Student3 answered: Story
see what actions that characters need
to do but first we will need the design
first. Since this will be our first
animation, we could always seek the
internet for character design that we
need. But always be careful of
copyright as it is illegal to take
someone work without permission
especially in the internet.

3. Project development and selecting

the music and sounds

Now that we have our design and All Students answered: Yes Sir!
storyboard. We will need a team
who have roles in making this
animation. Class, what do you think
are the different role in making an
animation.
 Student1 answered: Sir, production
Very good! Student1. As students once manager, content specialist, script writer,
said we will need this people to create a text editor, graphic artist, animator and

big animation movie. But as we are still programmer.

trying to learn how to create an

animation. I would like you to all be an
animator first.

And please don’t forget that we will need

to pick the music and sound that is
All Students answered: Yes Sir!
appropriate for this story. Such as the
theme song of “Avengers” movie. Does
anyone watch that movie?

And what do you think about you feel in

listening to the music. Some students answered: Sir. We have
watch that movie.

Yes! Definitely. By listening to this kind of

music you suddenly want to do
something and that the importance in Student5 answered: Hopeful and Excited.

choosing the right sound for this kind of

story.
 4. Interactivity, Testing Project
Output, Revisions, Documentation
and Deliver.

Now that we created our story and

animation, We will need to choose if
we want to interact with it but
because it is a movie, we first shall
not do so. We would do it if we tried
creating a game.

After creating an animation, we will

need to polish it and see if we can
revise and update our work. After
that is documenting the process on
All Students answered: Yes Sir!
how we made it and last is to save it
to a DVD or cd to be distributed to
the people who are interested in
seeing it.

All Students answered: Yes Sir!

IV. Evaluation
A. Identification
1. .SWF stands for ___________.
2. __________ designed to create animation that can be played on web pages.
3. .SWF is formerly known as __________
4. .AS file stands for ___________.
5. __________ is an alternative for creating an animation and website
6. __________ is also known as bitmap graphics
7. First step on developing a multimedia project
8. __________ is a violation of the right of the copyright holder
9. __________ is the process in visualizing the scenes in the story.
10. A _________ is responsible for creating multiple images to give an illusion of
movement.

B. Enumeration
11-14 Give 4 Steps in developing a multimedia projects
15-18 four different file types used by FLASH
19-20 Basic types of graphics

V. Assignment:

Create an idea and title for your animation and create a story around it. Provide two
designs for your characters or backgrounds. Use your yellow paper. No need to use a
folder. Write your name at the top of the page.