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
https://www.facebook.com/RareAndStrangeInstruments/
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