What if I ate a painting?

French — 6-11 years old

Educational activity around the short film Dripped

Expected end of activities

Write a variety of writings, write a text of one or two pages adapted to its recipient; after revision, obtain an organized and coherent text, with legible spelling and respecting spelling regularities.

Implement an artistic project.

Dripped © Eddy

TitleDripped

ThemePainting

Genre & keywordsComic, Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism, museum

Age (for film)6-11 years old

Duration8 min 22 s

DirectorLéo Verrier

MusicPablo Pico

ProductionEddy (France, 2010)

Educational activities

Written production.

Jack, the main character of the film, literally devours famous paintings. In doing so, it metamorphoses, taking on the main characteristic of each work. After letting the students express themselves on the film and more particularly on the different metamorphoses, the teacher will offer them, based on reproductions of the works present in the short film*, a writing activity on the theme "if I ate this painting..."

Beyond achieving the objectives directly linked to the written production, writing on this theme so close to the film will allow students to better take ownership of this short film and to better understand the emotions that run through the character.

We can propose different writing methods:

A “writing ritual” workshop, an activity that comes to us from Quebec: writing jogging. Several times a week, using a writing launcher, here the reproductions of tables, the students write for a time defined in advance, no more than 15 minutes... The teacher warns 1 minute before the end of the activity to allow everyone to finish their sentence. In order to remove any pressure linked to the act of writing, the production can remain personal, not corrected by the teacher. Students who wish will be able to read their productions to the class. Each student will also be able to note the number of words written on a graph. in order to visualize its progress.
Poetic writing.
Writing with constraints, for example: if I ate this painting I... but I wouldn't...
An exquisite corpse type writing game: the first writes a sentence "if I ate this painting I", the second begins his sentence with "for" then "because", "and I would say"...
Longer writing, for example with the aim of writing a collection of texts illustrated with tables. Students, after choosing a work, will be able to work in pairs to produce their text.

Extensions

In literature with “The Ink Drinker” by Martin Matje. Excerpt: “PAPA is a bookseller. He loves books. He devours them. He's an ogre. He reads all day and sometimes even at night. It's an incurable disease but it doesn't seem to worry our family doctor. »
In painting with the paintings of Michelangelo, Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet, Vincent Van Gogh, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Edvard Munch, Keith Haring, Pablo Picasso.

Activity sheet written by: Pascale Bani. Discover the blog En Classe Pascale...

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