Legomations also called Brick Films or Claymations are a fun way to introduce your students to movie making. It is the process of taking still photos and combining them to create a movie.

OBJECTIVE

Create a stop motion film using a digital camera, legos or other movable toys and animating using WeVideo.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The learner will:

1. Study the History of clay animation. (A background on claymation done by Ray Harryhausen)

2. Brainstorm ideas for you video

3. Develop a Storyboard that will retell a story or a new creative work

4. Learn a lego Walk Sequence

5. Create Movie from walk sequence using wevideo

6. Record Voice in movie

7. Add Mouth Moving special effect using Photopea

8. Add Special Effects using Photopea

9. Add Zoom and Pan across filming

10. Add Jumping and Flying legos

11. Add Mood Music example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9V0cN4NWs

12. Add Special Effect Sounds

13. Add Movie Title at beginning

14. Add Credits at end

HISTORY

Handout of Ray Harryhausens life use Wikipedia to find answers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen

Claymation History

Tribute Video to Ray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H_mUhuilr8

BRAINSTORM

You have lots of options for your video these are requirements.

1. 60 seconds of video 8 frames per second so 480 total still pics

2. Video can be a lego version of a movie trailer

3. A TV commercial

4. A unique work made from your imagination

5. Lego version of a story like three little pigs or tortoise and the hare

Once you have decided upon your movie assign jobs to your team members you want teams of 2 people 

BRAINSTORMING RULES

• • Defer judgment – separating idea generation from idea selection strengthens both activities. For now, suspend critique. Know that you’ll have plenty of time to evaluate the ideas after the brainstorm.

  • Encourage wild ideas – breakout ideas are right next to the absurd ones

  • Build on the ideas of others – listen and add to the flow if ideas. This will springboard your group to places no individual can get to on their own

  • Go for volume – best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

  • One conversation at a time – maintain momentum as a group. Save the side conversations for later.

  • Headline – capture the essence quickly and move on. Don’t stall the group by going into a long-winded idea. 

Jobs 

Here are the Jobs that must be assigned:

1. Storyboard

2. Set creation

3. Character movement

4. Filming and lighting

5. Frame editing special effects

6. Find or create Sound Effects

7. Record Character Voices

8. Find Mood Music 

   1. Add pictures, sounds, voices and mood music to movie

9. Title, Credits 

STORYBOARD

What is it? A “storyboard” represents shots of your story in succession. Storyboard process first started in animation, but has been adapted in film, television advertisements, comic books and other visual genres in which the sequence of the story and the visual scene crucially shape audience’s reception and experience. The storyboard drawn beforehand help designers conceptualize each “shot” and identify potential problems.

Storyboarding is helpful because it will help you:

• • Determine the critical scenes of your story

  • Provide a big picture view

  • Visualize story to shape audience’s viewing experience

  • Consider different approaches

  • Make quick change and adjustments

  • Identify and plan what you need to make the film/video happen (props, actors, location, lighting, special effects, types of camera shots)

1. Create a simple storyboard of 4 to 8 scenes that will be the main story of your Legomation.

2. Use simple stick people animations

3. The description should describe what actions take place in your storyboard

4. The "List" is for special effects that will be done in PhotoPea like mouths, lasers, explosions etc.

5. Character dialog should be included

Download Storyboard

You can print out the storyboard, edit the storyboard document or use an online storyboard generator like this one http://www.storyboardthat.com/