Stop Motion Revolution competition
This year marks the 225th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. To commemorate the event, schools in the University's primary programme will be inviting year 6 pupils to enter our stop-motion competition. Using prints from the Waddesdon Manor collection of prints, pupils have to make a stop-motion animation of up to 1 minute about the start of the French Revolution.
A Lego animation from a previous project can be seen on You-Tube .
To give you more information about the French Revolution, you can listen to a series of podcasts by Dr Katherine Astbury from the Department of French Studies.
Podcast 1: The Ancien Régime [pre-Revolutionary France)
Podcast 2: The Estates general and the Fall of the Bastille
Podcast 3: The Constitution and the Royal Family's flight to Varennes
Podcast 4: The Fall of the Monarchy
Podcast 5: The Terror
Podcast 6: Post-Thermidor and the Directory
To offer a starting point for the animations, here is a powerpoint file of prints from Waddesdon Manor to inspire you. If you want to see more prints, you can search the collection by going to the .
The powerpoint slides of the talk I gave in schools, including links to the Lady Gaga and Horrid Histories videos are available here.
Teachers
A lesson plan and story board template can be downloaded for you to use in class. A powerpoint who wants to be a millionaire game on the fall of the Bastille is also available here.