Educational activity around the short film A different perspective
Address the notions of perspective and scale.
Appropriate visual narration from plastic compositions, in 2 or 3 dimensions, for the purposes of story and testimony or from the organization of still and animated images, to tell a story.
A different perspective © Chris O'Hara
TitleA different perspective
ThemePoint of view
Genre & keywordsComic, Extra-terrestrial, perspective, animals, moon, sea, mountain
Age (for film)3-11 years
Duration01 min 55 s
DirectorChris O'Hara
ProductionChris O'Hara (États-Unis, 2012)
Divert an object or character by integrating it into a place and creating an effect of scale.
The short film A different perspective allows students to approach the essential notion of scale relationships in visual arts. In fact, all the elements in an artistic work are linked together by a dimension ratio. An element serves as a reference (for example human size) and organizes the entire work.
An object will be smaller-larger compared to another, on the same plane or on different planes (background, foreground). To create an emotion (astonishment, fear, etc.), artists use oversizing to shift into a world where our bearings are disrupted.
Suggest that the students divert the image of an object or a character by reinventing its proportions: play with the scale and make us believe that a small object can seem large or even immense or conversely make us believe that an object that is actually large seems very small and tiny...
The sculptors
Extensions on scale relationships: “The Shrinking Man”, Jack Arnold (1957).
Activity sheet written by: Karine Cheze
