University degrees: Courses
Course length: 1 March - 15 April
Course city: Stockholm
If you like animation and want to work with museums or exhibitions then this is a course for you. The course aims to be as close to a real project with a customer / client as possible, but with support all the way in planning, production and delivery.
In the course, you and the other students carry out a project where you together create a number of animations for an exhibition about the Viking Age and Old Norse mythology in collaboration with the History Museum.
The course gives you the opportunity to learn how to use animation as a means of communication and artistic expression in a museum context. How to use animation to tell visitors about the content of the exhibition in an artistic and engaging way.
The intention is that you will gain experience, knowledge and understanding to work in a professional context.
The course responsible teacher is Kalle Sandzén, lecturer in narrative animated film.
Course content:
Workshops in animation techniques.
To tell with animation.
Animation as the medium’s special conditions and abilities.
Courses in Adobe After Effects.
Animation planning tools such as storyboard and animatic.
Presentation of ideas for customer.
Project planning for animation.
Animation history – inspiration.
Animation in an exhibition environment.
Work artistically and communicatively with a customer and visitor perspective.
Workshop in various animation techniques.
The Historical Museum will introduce a new exhibition in 2020 about Vikings. In the new exhibition, the museum wants to tell you more about what it was like to be human during the Viking age, what it was like to live, die, eat, grow, sleep, love, hate, travel or stay.
There is a standard picture of Vikings, especially in popular culture. The museum and the designers of the exhibition would like to see new and different artistic expressions on animations that can lift stories, add new perspectives and attract visitors.
We will jointly do a project in the form of parts of exhibition stands in collaboration with the Historical Museum in Stockholm. We work with exhibition designers and managers at the Historical Museum.
The animation can be done in SKH’s animation studios and with SKH’s equipment such as cameras, and can be completed on computers and software located on SKH’s premises.
If the museum decides to use works produced by students in the course, the display fee will be paid according to standard practice.
Teaching takes the form of lectures, workshops and tutoring.
The course will run on Wednesdays daytime and every other Thursday daytime, as well as home assignments.
