Learning on Screen Teaching Resources
About: A series of animations created to accompany teaching resources produced by Learning on Screen in collaboration with academics from UK universities. Each resource was built around programme clips, activities and discussion points designed to help students and educators explore a range of subjects. The animations provided an entry point for each resource, giving a sense of their scope, as well as a means for the academics involved to share and promote their work.
Role: Script, Designer, Animator
Overview: With the resources covering a variety of subjects, and authored by academics from a range of institutions, the main challenge was balancing flexibility with consistency. Each script was co-written with the academic lead and shaped to flow naturally as a voiceover, as well as ensure breathing room for effective animations. The academic’s recorded their own narrations, which helped to give each video a distinctive voice that was true to their personality and intent.
Visually, the tone was direct but playful, balanced in a way that could hold attention on niche or technical topics without undermining their academic value. Simple, metaphor-driven transformations were used to carry abstract ideas, with disparate shapes coalescing into objects and icons building into system arrays.
For the resource focused on supply chain management, for instance, toilet rolls vanish in puffs of smoke to echo early pandemic shortages, while ethical concerns were introduced through chess pieces morphing into scales of justice. Sequences like these gave the series a brisk, dynamic pace that helped each resource feel exciting, active, and accessible.
