{"id":67,"date":"2025-03-13T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/blocks-teachertext\/chapter\/frames\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:30:47","slug":"frames","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/blocks-teachertext\/chapter\/frames\/","title":{"raw":"Frames","rendered":"Frames"},"content":{"raw":"Display or distribute the image in the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/buildingblocks\/chapter\/aladdin-frame\/\">Aladdin Frame<\/a>. (You can also download it for distribution from <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1WDw-BSAsBxHArngCab4CdCSOxTrNPH2S\/view?usp=sharing\">Google Drive<\/a>.) Ask them what they think it is.\r\n\r\nAfter students have made a few suggestions,\u00a0 explain that this is an image of <strong>one frame of film. <\/strong>Each frame is one picture that the camera shot: when you show many frames one after the other, it looks like things are moving.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>If you have already completed the Flipbook Animation activity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/blocks-teachertext\/front-matter\/introduction-to-stop-motion-animation\/\">Introduction to Stop-Motion Animation<\/a> lesson, remind students of how their flipbooks made it look like things were moving. Each card in a flipbook is like one frame of film.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nExplain that even though most modern cameras don't use film anymore, they still record the same number of frames per second.\r\n\r\nAsk students: How many frames do they think there are in a second of film?\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>After students have made a few guesses, tell them that there are usually <strong>twenty-four <\/strong>frames per second.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nNow tell students that in the early days of movies, it wasn't possible to film in colour. That meant that early colour films had to be coloured <strong>by hand. <\/strong>Movies in those days had - somebody had to paint colour on every single frame. The image in the Aladdin Frame chapter is from a silent movie that was colourized this way.","rendered":"<p>Display or distribute the image in the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/buildingblocks\/chapter\/aladdin-frame\/\">Aladdin Frame<\/a>. (You can also download it for distribution from <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1WDw-BSAsBxHArngCab4CdCSOxTrNPH2S\/view?usp=sharing\">Google Drive<\/a>.) Ask them what they think it is.<\/p>\n<p>After students have made a few suggestions,\u00a0 explain that this is an image of <strong>one frame of film. <\/strong>Each frame is one picture that the camera shot: when you show many frames one after the other, it looks like things are moving.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have already completed the Flipbook Animation activity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/blocks-teachertext\/front-matter\/introduction-to-stop-motion-animation\/\">Introduction to Stop-Motion Animation<\/a> lesson, remind students of how their flipbooks made it look like things were moving. Each card in a flipbook is like one frame of film.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Explain that even though most modern cameras don&#8217;t use film anymore, they still record the same number of frames per second.<\/p>\n<p>Ask students: How many frames do they think there are in a second of film?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After students have made a few guesses, tell them that there are usually <strong>twenty-four <\/strong>frames per second.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now tell students that in the early days of movies, it wasn&#8217;t possible to film in colour. That meant that early colour films had to be coloured <strong>by hand. <\/strong>Movies in those days had &#8211; somebody had to paint colour on every single frame. 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