1. Stop-Motion Videos

2. What is stop-motion animation?
Stand Up Tall Music Video
OjZQ
Behind the Scenes

3. 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
See the tutorial video below to view the App we will be using to make our movie!

4. 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

5. Examples Another Behind the Scenes
Stop Motion Karate
Best Ever Videos
OK Go
Game over

6. Let’s get familiar with the steps of this LEGO Movie project:
Group story brainstorm
Story and idea ( second movie)
Fill out story sheet!
Build sets and props
Shoot movie
Finalize and Export
Share

7. Creating your movie: The simpler the idea the better
Consider materials that can be found in the room and around school 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 time-lapse

8. 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

9. 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

10. Helpful Hints: Intermediate Videos
Creative Stuff: How to do camera moves without a rig
Here’s how one person put together their Lego movie