The Arts · Year 6

Use composition rules and perspective to add depth and balance to artworks.

⏱ 19 min · 12 questions

Study how artists make portraits and learn about famous portrait painters.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Create a short melody and write it down so others can play it.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Learn camera shot types and how advertisements use them to persuade.

⏱ 19 min · 9 questions

Use the colour wheel, complementary colours, and tints and shades.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Explore the four families of orchestral instruments and how they sound.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Use dramatic tension and high or low status to make scenes gripping.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Explore how relief prints are made and why prints come in editions.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Use clear, exaggerated mime to tell a whole story with no speech.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Plan a film using storyboard frames that note shots and transitions.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Combine texture, form and value to make drawings look real.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Learn how three or more notes stacked together make a chord.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Build a believable scene on the spot using offers and focus.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Create and develop a movement motif into a short dance.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Use colour, shape and line to show ideas and feelings instead of real objects.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Discover how accenting the off-beats gives music a surprising, funky feel.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Work as a group to create an original short play from your own ideas.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Learn how editors cut and join clips to control a film's meaning and pace.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Use a stencil to print the same bold design many times.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Hear how one tune is changed and decorated to make new versions.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Combine moves from two dance styles to create a fusion sequence.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Spot the clues that tell us if a film is horror, comedy or adventure.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Make flat drawings look deep using a single vanishing point.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Use opposite movement qualities to make a dance gripping.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Hear how layers of sound make music feel thick or thin.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Look at how media represents people and spot stereotypes.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Explore how positive and negative shapes can flip what we see.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Layer repeating patterns to build texture in a piece of music.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Improvise a scene where one character's status rises while another's falls.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Use sharp versus smooth and sudden versus sustained to create contrast.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Use tone and a single light source to make objects look solid.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Explore how tempo, dynamics and instruments create mood in film music.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Use timing, exaggeration and surprise to make a scene funny.

⏱ 14 min · 7 questions

Create a short motif, then develop it by changing size, speed and level.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions