Under the COVID-19 pandemic, primary and secondary school students are mostly required to stay home for online learning. In light of that, The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) initiated an animation project with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design and the Hong Kong Baptist University with a target to providing online educational resource on environment protection and general knowledge, while passing on the messages of positivity among our younger generation.
The university students teamed up to produce a series of interesting animations which incorporated positive messages for children. Parents and teachers can make utilise the video clips to initiate meaningful dialogues with the school kids.
Among the final video clips, the animation “Puzzle” created by CHAN Sze Ming, CHOI Hoi Ching and FRANCISCO Miyuki of the BA(Hons) in Digital Media programme led by Teaching Fellow Step Cheung stood out for its heartwarming story and the refined details in character design.
The story of “Puzzle” is set against the background of the current “new normal” where children are staying home for online learning. It starts with an everyday online class when the teacher found his students not paying attention to him. To better engage the students, he invited everyone in the class to take part in doing a painting together to show their appreciation for health-care workers who are fighting the pandemic for mankind. This successfully enhanced a lively class interaction and got the students all working towards a common objective. The story ends with a thank you message for health-care workers, expressed by a happy and high-spirit class.
The collaboration is part of the SD4964 Co-operative Project subject under Work-Integrated Education. The subject provides final year students with opportunities to join collaborative projects sponsored by clients in both the commercial and non-profit sectors, to give students working experience in a real-life environment so that students will be able to better appreciate what they learn in class, to integrate theory with practice, to enhance all-round development and to make better career plan.
This is the first time Towngas collaborated with School of Design for the subject and the outcomes are satisfactory and mutually beneficial.
| Topics | News | Digital Media (BA) | Animation | PolyU Design Teaching and Learning | Work-Integrated Education | co-operative project | Collaboration |
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