Educational activity based on the short film Rain and Fish
Carry out an art project. Work together on an art project.
Understand the stages involved in creating a collective work.
Rain and Fish © Risa Kimpara / Tokyo University of the Arts
TitleRain and Fish
ThemeImagination
Genre & keywordsContemplative, rain, waiting, fish, imaginary
Age (for the film)3-11 years
Duration04 min 47 s
DirectorRisa Kimpara
MusicYusaku Masuda
ProductionTokyo University of the Arts (Japan, 2010)
Create a fresco to decorate the classroom, the school hallway.
In this poetic short film, the theme of water is omnipresent: rainwater, the water in which fish swim. This theme can be chosen for a visual arts unit: students can be asked to create a fresco which will decorate the classroom or the school corridor. This fresco should depict the ocean floor or a giant aquarium.
To do this, we'll need to get organised, choose together what we are going to draw, the colors, the materials, so that the final result is harmonious. The students will move from group to group and take turns; you will have to take into account the work previously done by others and add your personal touch.
We can put a large strip of drawing paper on the wall so that the students can work directly on it. But depending on the techniques used it may be wise to work flat or on the floor and then put it up on the wall. The first step will be to create the background: agree on the colors used, as well as the technique. You can, for example, do it with a sponge, with diluted paint.
Then the scenery: seaweed, rocks... and then the fish. These elements can be drawn directly on the fresco, but we can consider drawing them on sheets of paper and then gluing them onto the mural. It all depends on the organization chosen and the result you want to achieve.
To carry out this work we can draw inspiration from paintings by Alain Thomas such as “exotic fish” and “seabed with red algae”.
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