Online Registration deadline Friday, 24th October 2008

750 frame video deadline Friday, 31st October 2008

Winners announced : VITTA 2008 Conference Tuesday 25th November

You may wish to get a team of students to video an experiment your class is doing, edit it down to 30 seconds in Windows Moviemaker or iMovie or other editor and submit it as your entry in the competition.

OR .... you may want to also experiment with "time-lapse" animation ....

First, decide if you are going to make a "manual" animation over a short period of time [1-6 hours]

• Plant biology : "corkscrew" seeds burrowing, flower opening, wilting, celery absorbing dye
• Astronomy: sundial shadow moving
• Animal biology: amoeba feeding, starfish feeding, ant behaviour, insect behaviour, spider web building
• Earth Science: clouds forming, water evaporating, ice melting
• Chemistry: crystals growing on micro slide, chromatography, redox reactions, anode/cathode reactions, model atoms and molecules combining, endo/exothermic reactions
• Physics: Projectile motion, wave motion, gyroscopic motion, pendulum motion, newtons laws, effects of gravity, nuclear reactions [using models!], movement of liquids, dyes, gears meshing, lever action, light behaviour, magnetic forces, battery depletion

For short manual animations, use MonkeyJam, a freeware application that links to your webcam, digital camera or videocam [preferred] and makes very good AVI movies from your still pictures.

OR

• An automated animation over a long period of time [1 to 10 weeks]
• Plant biology : seeds germinating, bean tendrils curling, plants growing, mushroom growing, phototrophisms, petri dish bacteria and fungal growth, food/fruit decomposing, differential seedling growth
• Astronomy: moon phases, eclipses, planetary motion, sunrise apparent movement along horizon
• Animal biology: wasp nest building, bird nest building
• Earth Science: water erosion, dam water level changing
• Chemistry: metals rusting, crystals growing, chalk dissolving in vinegar
• Physics: radioactive decay, diffusion across membranes