This week, Cate, Rianna and I created a stop motion film project.
We decided to create a short film of animals coming out of a “forest” and then turning around chanting to their forest leader. The video features the word Fig being built.
What we learned
- We learned that creating a stop motion that’s not on even solid ground makes it significantly more difficult.
- That patience plays a key part in the making.
- If you think the movement of your animals is small, make the movement even smaller.
- Take two of the same photo, so your transitions come out more clear.
- Wipe your camera off before filming, so the film comes out more clear.
- If the setting is outside, the lighting and the weather plays a factor, so our transitions in some parts are less clear because it was windy. The tress are moving in “blocks” almost
- We didn’t realize till after our video was developed that our chanting at the end developed an off setting feeling.
- Not having sound through out the whole video made the chanting almost random and the transition from quiet to loud, awkward. We should have put sound in the beginning to smooth it out.
Classroom learning
We couldn’t use this video I don’t think necessarily in a classroom but stop motion could 100% be used.
Some Ideas I would use this for this are
- Watching / making the development of a plant growing
- Caterpillar going into the stages of metamorphisi
- Developing the concept of patience :That taking the time todo something gives you “better” results
- Using stop motion for kids to show what they have learned in class
- Using it show how wheels work possibly with a axel
- Hibernation video
When looking or examples I found some that are a little bit older, and have been created from older students. But I think they are still greats examples of how Kids can show their knowledge. Stop Motion used in schools