NLS IT Club aims to train its members to be comfortable with the use of IT equipment and software such as Apple iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash & Photo Elements to produce digital movies, websites & other resources. The club was officially started in 2008. Pupils were given the opportunities to equip themselves with videography and photography skills. These skills include storyboarding, video angle skills, video editing, photo taking techniques and photo editing. Since then, its members have also been nurtured into event photographers, taking pictures for school events.
| Members | Date & Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Year 2, 3 & 4 | Tuesdays, 3.00pm to 4.30pm | East Wing Computer Lab 1 |
In 2009, 16 senior members went through training in Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash, learning how to create basic websites & flash animations, in a collaboration project with Raffles Institution Infocomm Club students and Oracle. In this project, the Raffles Institution students were mentors to our members providing training on the use of the software and Oracle provided the opportunities and platforms for competitions and resources.
The aim is to help the Northlight students feel more confident about themselves, about what they do, as well as to provide them with the skills necessary for possible job opportunities. In today’s modern society, technology has a very important day to day use and has become a necessity rather than something exclusive. Thus, there is a need for these students who do not have a chance to learn on their own, to gain this crucial knowledge and apply it in their daily lives.
Also the aim of RI Infocomm students is to build a strong interest in the minds of NorthLight students in the field of technology and certainly hope that some of these students will build upon this interest and can go on to choose technology as a foundation for their future career options.
The course was conducted within the RI premises itself. This option will permit the RI facilitators to conduct 4 hours of lesson in the morning and 4 hours of lesson in the afternoon. The time period of 8 hours per day was flexible. The pace of the lessons was adjusted according to each group’s learning capabilities and participants had ample time for hands-on experience.
17 IT Club members from Year 1, 2 and 3 went through an 8-session stop-motion animation workshop conducted by Animagine Pte Ltd in Term 4 of 2010. Working on the Character of the Week themes of Self Control, Honesty, Respect and Wisdom, the students worked in groups to produce a short paper cut-out stop-motion animation.
During the workshop, the students managed to achieve the following objectives and learning points:
- Glimpse of animation art form through hands-on exercises
- Controlling motion and timing in animation
- Content creation - from seed idea to script for animation
- Storytelling pre-visualization through story boarding
- Camera and layout of visual in storytelling
- Craftsmanship - drawing & paper art skill through assets creation for animation
- Concept of layering and segmentation of paper art for animation
- Planning skill - breaking down scenes and elements required from storyboard to preproduction to production
- Communication skill - crucial from brain storming for story idea till production of animation
- Team work and time management - task allocation and keeping to animation planning to complete production
