Stop motion Applied
Lesson 3
Creating your animation
Introduction
Watch the video for an introduction to the lesson.
Understanding the tasks
Rating the tasks
This lesson contains a few activities. Each activity will have one or more tasks. These tasks have been given a rating.
Some of the tasks in this lesson are must do. These are important to help you understand the introductory ideas or skills.
Have a go at the should do tasks and reach out to your friends or teacher if you need some advice. These will usually take a bit longer to complete than must do tasks.
Could do tasks will probably take you some extra time and might need you to get creative or problem solve. We strongly encourage you to try these.
Activity 1 - Planning a scene
Task 1 - How can we break down a scene?
Task 2 - Deconstruct these scenes
Watch the video and answer the questions to check your understanding of how emotions can be conveyed through small actions.
Task 3- Storyboard
You need to plan out the movements your stop motion will include.
Complete this storyboard template to break down your own scene.
Click on the image to open the Storyboard template.
Click on 'Use template' to create an editable version.
Note: You may also want to sketch your storyboard on a piece of paper.
Activity 2 - Animating in Google slides
Task 1 - How to animate in Google Slides
Watch this video to learn how to create a stop motion using Google Slides.
Note: Instead or as well as watching the video, you can read instructions about how to design a character.
Task 2 - Explore examples
Watch these examples of stop motions made using Google Slides.
Click on the button to open the PMI template.
Click on 'Use template' to create an editable version.
7th Grade Google Slides Stop Motion Animation
Duration 5:25
Task 3 - Make your own
Go back to the Google slide that you used to create your character and setting in Lesson 2.
Start creating your animation!
You can always re-watch the video in Task 1 if you get stuck.
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any handwritten work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.