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Stop-Motion Videos

By Miss Eggers

+What is stop-motion animation?

A kind of animation using photographs

Still pictures are pieced together and flipped through rapidly to give the illusion of a movement or time passing, creating a movie

The object is moved in small increments for each photographed frame, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence

Characters and objects can be made of a variety of movable materials across backgrounds and sets or stages

Here is an ad for iMotion…the app we’ll be using!

+Let’s get familiar with vocabulary: iMotion – the app we will use to shoot our movies

Frame – a single photograph

Frames per second – how many photographs, when grouped with the rest of the photos, are seen in a second More frames per second = faster Less frames per second = slower

Ghost image – a faint image of the picture you just took will appear in iMotion so that you may line up your new photo so that your character or set has moved slightly from the image before…what is seen as the ghost image

We’ll explore these in the iMotion demo

+Let’s get familiar with the steps of this project:

Individual story brainstorm

Group story brainstorm

Story and idea Propose to Miss Eggers

Build sets and props

Shoot movie

Finalize and Export

Share

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+Creating your movie:

The simpler the idea the better

You will be deciding how to communicate an idea about color theory Color mixing, color families, color vocabulary

Consider materials that can be found in the art room for your set and props – you are welcome to bring items from home, but their safety isn’t necessarily guaranteed :/ Think of a small action sequence An adventure tale Re-telling or re-create a familiar story Make a “how-to” A timelapse

+Let’s get familiar with jobs:

You will all take part in drafting the story, and building sets and characters

On the shooting day(s) you will each perform all of the rolls within this process: Photographer Mover Storyteller/timekeeper

+Helpful Hints:

You must stay on track with the daily schedule and goals!

Keep your story short but interesting

Quality made sets and backgrounds = better movie

Smaller movements and more frames = better movie, less choppy (at least 50 frames – 300-500 = great movie)

What should you do if you don’t get along?

LET’S LOOK AT THE PACKET AND SOME EXAMPLES