Transcript Character, Plot, Setting, ANIMATE!

Character, Plot, Setting,
ANIMATE!
SESSION OUTLINE
What is stop motion animation?
How was stop motion animation used in a 3rd grade art room?
How does this unit apply to 21st century skills?
Unit objectives/content standards
Planning process including Unit planning sheets
Suggestions for stop motion animation themes
Other cross curriculum applications
Animation Programs - online and desktop
What is Stop Motion
Animation?
an animation technique to make a physically manipulated
object appear to move on its own.
The object is moved in small increments between
individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of
movement when the series of frames is played as a
continuous sequence. Moving Penny Animation
Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of
repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay
animation or clay-mation.
People also use LEGO toys for animation, also called
“Brick Films”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-motion_animation
What is Stop Motion
Animation?
Use of CGI (computer generated imagery) has reduced
the use of stop motion and almost rendered it obsolete as
a serious special effects tool in feature films.
Still used on some projects such as in children's
programming (Bob the Builder), as well as in
commercials such as Amazon’s Kindle.
The reason stop motion may be chosen over CGI, CGI has
yet to match the way real textures are captured by stop
motion making it valuable for a handful of movie makers,
notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse
Bride was released in 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-motion_animation
3rd Grade Art Room
Imaginations!
5 groups of 4-5 students
5 digital cameras with homemade tripods (books,
tabletops, and sticky putty)
5 MacBook laptops loaded with MacOSX iMovie
software on loan from the administration office.
Modeling Clay, paper, scissors, markers, etc.
Items brought from home
Unit Objectives
In groups of 4 to 5, students will plan, design, and
create a stop animation movie including character,
setting and plot.
After a teacher demonstration and by using the
group designed storyboard involving character,
setting, and plot created during the planning
process, students will film their animations using a
digital camera, and modify transitions, add title and
credit slides as well as sound in iMovie.
...More Examples of Stop
Motion Animation!
Western Spaghetti created by PES
2009 Sundance Film Festival Winner
Origami Animation
T-Shirt War by Rhett and Link
T-Shirt War behind the Scenes
Possible Materials
pipe cleaners
dry erase marker boards (3:25-4:48)
wire
clay/play dough/modeling clay
pencil and paper
chalk boards
and so much more....
3rd grade movies created at
West Central Elementary
http://westcentralk2art.wikispaces.com/stop_a
nimation_3rd_grade
21st Century Skills
Creativity and Innovation
2.CI.1 Demonstrate originality and inventiveness
in work.
2.CI.3 Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspectives.
2.CI.4 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible
and useful contribution to the domain in which
the innovation occurs.
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
2.CTP.1 Make complex choices and decisions.
2.CTP.3 Identify and ask significant questions
that clarify various points of view and lead to
better solutions.
21st Century Skills
Communication and Collaboration
2.CC.1 Articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and
effectively through speaking and writing.
2.CC.2 Demonstrate ability to work effectively
with diverse teams.
2.CC.3 Exercise flexibility and willingness to be
helpful in making necessary compromises to
accomplish a common goal.
2.CC.4 Assume shared responsibility for
collaborative work.
21st Century Skills
Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
4.SCC.1 Work appropriately and productively
with others.
4.SCC.2 Leverage the collective intelligence of
groups when appropriate.
21st Century Skills
Leadership and Responsibility
4.LR.2 Leverage strengths of others to
accomplish a common goal.
4.LR.4 Act responsibly with the interests of the
larger community in mind.
Content Standards
3.R.3.1 (Analysis) Students can identify and describe literary elements and
devices in literature. (character, plot, and setting)
Technology 3.CT.1.4 Create, save and retrieve folders. 3.CP.1.1 Participate
within groups to produce a digital output for a given assignment.
SD Visual Arts Standard 2.1 Explore various media and processes used in
the production of visual arts.
SD Visual Arts Standard 1.1 Describe how visual arts tell stories or express
moods or ideas.
SD Visual Arts Standard 1.2 Use selected media and processes to express
ideas or personal topics of interest.
Step 1. Animation Practice
Students created a flip book by cutting and stapling the
pages in order. Use card stock or other heavy paper to
photocopy flip book pages.
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/flip-book-coloring-page/
View Teacher example Frame by Frame
NOW YOU TRY IT!
Sticky Note Flip Book:
Keep it simple!
Ideas: Bouncing Ball or Stick Person Moving
Step 2. Create Groups
Stand up and organize The easiest way of doing this for the teacher to organize is for
students to stand in a line in order (of age, height, distance of their journey to the school etc.) and
then split them off into groups, asking them to find a place to sit down and work together.
Picture Puzzles. Cut pictures from a magazine so that there are half as many pictures as
members of the group. If you have a theme try to find pictures related to the theme. Cut each
picture in half and mix them up in a hat. Each person takes one piece and partners are those whose
pieces form a complete picture.
Pictures. Give each student a card with a different kind of ball or sporting equipment picture
on it. Students are to find the person(s) with the equipment that matches theirs. Of course you can
use any category for this (i.e., dogs, cars, birds).
Shake, Rattle and Roll. Take as many film canisters as you have people. In each film
canister, put an object. The objects you pick can be like the following: cotton balls, pennies,
paperclips, jelly beans, m&m's, etc. If you have 30 people and you want to divide them into three
groups of 10 each, you would place a cotton ball in 10 of the canisters, a paperclip in 10 of the
canisters, and a penny in 10 of the canisters. Each individual then picks a canister from a bag,
basket or some other container. Find persons in the group with a like sounding object and stay with
that group.
Colored Sticky Notes. Hand out as many colored sticky notes for as many groups you
would like to divide your students.
Step 3. BrainStorming
Materials: 1 plain white piece of paper 9”x12” per group, pencils
without erasers, and IMAGINATIONS!
Rules: Write down all ideas good or bad from all group members,
draw pictures, write words, write or draw everything quickly without
criticisms or judgements, Don't even groan, frown, or laugh. All ideas are
equally valid at this point. Do NOT erase or cross off any ideas!
Time Limit: 5 minutes...
Ideas: Include setting, characters, story, materials, everything and
anything that comes to mind!
Examples
Step 4. Refining &
Editing Ideas
1. When all the ideas have been recorded, combine ideas as much
as possible, but only when the original contributors agree.
2. Draw a line through ideas that are unwanted. Do NOT erase or
completely scratch off ideas.
3. Number all remaining ideas.
4. Each member votes on the remaining ideas by making a list of
the numbers of the ideas he/she thinks are important or should
be discussed further. This list should contain no more than one
third of the total number of ideas.
5. After counting the votes, cross out ideas with only one or two
votes. Then vote again until only a few ideas remain(i.e., 3 or 4).
If there is no clear-cut winner, then vote again or discuss the
remaining ideas and determine which idea best answers the
original question.
Step 5. Character, Plot and
Setting Planning Sheet
Step 6. Script Writing
Compare to Reader’s Theatre organization,
studied during 2nd grade year.
Designate speaking parts by writing Character’s
Name, then colon or dash and finally speaking
part.
Script and storyboard must be complete before
animation can begin!
Step 7. StoryBoard
Storyboard Examples
Storyboard Examples
Step 8. Character &
Material Planning Sheet
Students will plan and design the appearance
and necessary materials of all characters in the
story.
Each character was assigned its own planning
sheet to show it’s appearance including colors,
clothing, etc.
This sheet also contains an area for listing the
materials necessary for creating the character
and where/who the materials will come from.
“A Day in the Life at Aardman Studios” from Wallace and Gromit: The
Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Character & Material
Planning Sheet
Create Characters & Setting
Remind students to bring any necessary
materials from home as assigned during
character planning in previous step.
Provide a list of materials to students that will be
supplied by teacher/school such as paper,
scissors, modeling clay, toothpicks, glue, etc.
Use wires, aluminum foil, or toothpicks for
armatures in characters made from modeling
clay.
“How to Build a Bunny” From Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit.
Time to Animate!
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Teacher demonstrates process/preparation for picture taking to create animation. Show
“Walking Figure” video.
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Each group will mount the camera on a tripod (stack of books with sticky tack or directly to
table top) - You don't want the camera to move at all during the picture taking process.
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Tape the background down to keep it from moving.
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Place the camera so that the background completely fills the frame for the pictures you'll take.
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Keep storyboard close by as a map to follow during the picture taking process.
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Position the characters where you'll want them, and then press the "Take Picture" button.
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After you take each picture, slightly move your characters into position for the next shot. Each
picture you take will become a frame in your movie. Clay animation looks good at a frame rate
as low as six frames per second.
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After you've taken all the pictures, quit the picture taking part and proceed to the next step uploading to the MACs. (next class period)
Putting it all
together in iMovie.
Import Pictures into iPhoto: Once you have all of the pictures taken, plug your
camera into your Mac and import the photos into iPhoto. You might want to create a new photo
album with a specific scene/movie name and drag the pictures into it.
Open iMovie and create a new iMovie project. Name it whatever you like.
Now click on the “Media” button to the right above your timeline and select
“Photos” at the top right of the window. (On older versions of iPhoto, you’ll click the “Photos”
button instead of the “Media” button.)
Select your stop-motion album. All of your photos should appear in order, select
all photos by clicking on the first photo and holding shift and clicking on last photo. Drag into
timeline.
Animate Your Photos: In order for your animated short movie to play properly, you
must tell iMovie how long you want each photo to appear before showing the next one. In iMovie,
select all of the photographs in your stop-motion album (the quick way to do this is to click on the
very first photo and then, holding down the shift key, scroll down and click on the last photo.) Now
click (the gear in in the lower left of any photo) and type in “0.03″ (or other number of your
choosing under 1 second) for your duration in the floating window that appears. Click the Apply
button. Once iMovie’s finished filling the timeline, hit play.
Final Touches
By default, iMovie gives imported photos a pan and zoom effect called ‘Ken
Burns’. While cool for a photo slideshow, it messes up stop animation. To
turn it off:
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Click on a photo in iMovie and press Command-A to select all
your photos.
Press C to see the Crop options for your project.
Select either Fit or Crop instead of Ken Burns.
To fine tune your animation, you can slow it down by choosing to use more
than 3 frames-per-photo. You can also add music to your short by dragging
MP3s or AIFF files to the timeline, or browsing your iTunes library from
within iMovie.
To share your stop-motion video, you’ll want to convert it to QuickTime.
The steps in this process depend on which version of iMovie you are using.
In general, look for “Export” or “Share” options, and try one of the default
options.
Cross-Curriculum
Suggestions
Science: metamorphosis of a butterfly, moon phases, seed to plant
growth, climate or season change, erosion, photosynthesis, etc.
Math: Fractions, Addition and Subtraction, Division and
Multiplication, shape morphing, and more....
Literature: retell stories, vocabulary explanations,
parts of speech,
etc.
Social Studies: Reenact historical events, portray historical
figures, timelines, locations and events, etc.
Desktop Software options
Microsoft Office Power Point
Windows Movie Maker
Apple iMovie
Free Online Downloadable Software (see next 2
slides)
Animation Links & Resources
Clay Animation Station ThinkQuest 1998 Entry. Learn about
the artists who are working with clay animation today. Learn how to create
your own movie and how to enter your work into a festival.
http://library.thinkquest.org/22316/#
Stop Motion Central Learn to make stop motion claymation,
Brick films, and reviews for the latest software for Stop Motion.
http://www.stopmotioncentral.com/
Lego Matrix Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, "Trinity
Help" is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bulletdodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, all done in Lego.
http://legomatrix.com
Stop Motion Animation Really great website with tutorials and
stop motion animation examples with various different materials.
http://www.stormthecastle.com/stop-motion-animation/index.htm
Animation Links & Resources
continued...
StopMoj0 a free cross-platform stop-motion animation suite
designed to aid in the creation of animations. It includes a capture
program supporting capture of image files from various video devices,
overlay of previous frames (onion skinning), and export to AVI and
QUICKTIME video formats.
http://www.mondobeyondo.com/projects/stopmojo/
Stop Motion Works A great website with an overview of Stop
Motion software and tools.
http://www.stopmotionworks.com/stopmosoftwr.htm
Clay Animation and Stop Motion Website A great
resource for vocabulary and resources, even includes an online idea sketch
pad for characters. http://www.clayanimator.com/english/menu.html
Frame by Frame Free stop motion animation software for Macs.
http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html
To Sum it Up!
This Unit is Adaptable to any....
subject matter: math, science, art, literature, social studies
materials
grade level
software: online or desktop
and relies heavily on 21st century skills such as problem
solving, teamwork, and creativity and imagination!