Stop motion Applied Lesson 4


Enhancing your stop motion

Introduction

Watch the video for an introduction to the lesson.

Lesson overview

Duration 1:26

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 - Creating mood

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Task 1 - Plan the mood

You've learned lots of ways to create mood.

  1. Click on the image to open the Communicate the mood template.

  2. Click on 'Use template' to create an editable version.

  3. Brainstorm how you will set the mood in your stop motion.

  4. Go back to your stop motion and make these changes!

image link to mood planner template
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Task 2 - Adding sound

  1. Use the guide in the Google Slides to the right to learn how to add sound effects to your stop motion.

  2. Try adding music or sound effects to your stop motion to add to the mood.

Adding sound /music to your stop motion
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Task 3 - Using a variety of shots

Complete the interactive below to develop your understanding of shot types.

Then, consider adding different shot types to your stop motion.

Activity 2 - Reflect and improve

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Task 1 - Feedback

Find at least one person to view your stop motion so far and give you some feedback.

  1. Click on the image to open the Modify, add, subtract feedback template.

  2. Click on 'Use template' to create an editable version.

  3. Ask your audience to give suggestions about what they would change, add or take away from your work.

image link to Modify, add, subtract template
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Task 2 - Reflect

Read your audience's feedback and take some time to reflect on how well you are meeting the criteria.

  • Click on the image to open the Criteria template.

  • Click on 'Use template' to create an editable version.

image link to audience feedback template

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.