How about doing an art history class on film history with your students for a change ?
Discuss innovations by French New Wave with your students, starting with this shorty:
Category: film
Experimental sound
Rare and experimental instruments can be inspiring for film editing
Animate Japanese woodprints
surreal animated historic photos
magic animations by Bill Domonkos
link above by Collosal and all links below by Tumblr-Archiv of Bill Domonkos
staging classic paintings
a compilation of inspiring examples for staging classic paintings in photo and film
a great variety staged classic paintings was also published on Booooom
and Adobe on Informatione Libera.
Emanuela Pulvirenti has another concept of staged paintings, using a digital backdrop, which needs some preparation:
Here more works by Emanuela Pulvirenti and her students part II and part III
Adad Hannah works on elaborated staged paintings:
How it’s done?
“Dumb ways to die” inspired many animation artists -but how is it done? (Solution below 🙂 )
…and here you can learn to do it step by step on skillshare
Sorry, the professional level is less suitable for high school classes. But I would loooove to try it myself.
Moments
animation classic
Now digitally restored and online: Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.
Still perfect to introduce a class into animation techniques.
dress up for animation
stop-motion animation by Daniel Cloud Campos
Boooooooooooooom
klick to start off
collection of Aernoud Bourdrez