Educational activity based on the short film Unsatisfying
Produce written texts.
Read aloud.
Unsatisfying © Parallel Studio
TitleUnsatisfying
ThemeDissatisfaction
Genre & keywordsComic, frustration, spoon, domino, ball
Age (for the film)6-11 years old
Duration01 min 16 s
DirectorParallel Studio
MusicSamuel Barber
ProductionParallel Studio (France, 2016)
Tell a story within set constraints.
Invent, write and then tell a story about frustration, set in a specific context.
The students will invent a story which will take place in a specific context in which they will have to portray the feeling of frustration.
Take the desert, for example, as a setting. The protagonists of our story will be a camel and a mouse. Fortunately, this desert has an oasis. Is there water? It's up to the students to decide...
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Based on these premises, students can imagine a story that depicts frustration, for example:
The camel arrives at the oasis after a long walk, but there is no more water. The camel arrives at the oasis but the mouse has drunk everything. The camel arrives at the oasis but it is afraid of the mouse and doesn't dare go closer, it's frustrating!!!
Suggest other contexts. The important thing is that children have a well-defined framework to be able to concentrate on the narrative objective which is to dramatize frustration.
Ask the children to tell their stories in front of the whole class and compare them.
Activity sheet written by: Olivier Defaye
