Making Your Mark

In this paper, published by the journal ECi, Andrew Burn (Institute of Education, London) & David Parker consider the making of animated film by Year 6 pupils (11 years old) based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, using digital drawing and animation software. The authors examine how the act of inscription - making signs on a page or screen using software, pens or other materials - might be different in the context of digital composition of the moving image; and how, at the present time, digital modes of inscription may offer a greater freedom of expression to users, especially in education. The authors will locate their theory of digital inscription within a proposal, briefly summarised here, of a wider model of a social semiotic grammar of the moving image.

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Parker D, 'Making it Move, Making it Mean: Animation, Print Literacy and the Metafunctions of Language' in Jackie Marsh and Elaine Millard (eds), Popular Literacies, Childhood and Schooling (London: Routledge/Falmer, 2005)