7p9. Stop Motion

List of 10 good ideas:

Planning questions:

Claymation of a battle
A story about real life
A mix of animation and stop motion
Things being disassembled and reassembled
A compilation of satisfying things broken down into stop-motion
A race with Hotwheels cars
A stop-motion recounting an event in history
A monster truck rally
A car crash claymation
A satisfying claymation of smashing clay

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

I am working with Deagan on this project. We will do the animation together but we will do other things separately. We will do things like the editing and the order of the scenes individually and add different sound effects.

What materials will you need for your project?

We will need a handful of things for the animation. We will need clay, lego figurines, and electronics to take pictures of how we arrange these things. We will also need iPads for the editing process where we add the sound effects and text.

What is your plan to create in this project?

I plan to complete this project in three steps, first I will do the planning and animate some of the important scenes. After that, I will animate the scenes that connect the important scenes. Finally, I will edit all of the scenes together on an iPad.

What unique qualities will your project have?

My project will have the qualities of being a depiction of real events using stop-motion techniques. This project will be all about depicting this story in a way that is accurate but not just a filmed reenactment. I may have to innovate to depict some of the more complicated shots like jumps with air time and driving on one wheel.

Day 1

On this day I joined Deagan's project. I began work on this website and built some things with legos. Then I built an ambulance before leaving.

Day 2

During this day we recorded another scene. The scene was of the camera following an ambulance as it drove down the road. We added little specs of dirt moving on the wheels to add to the illusion.

Day 3

On this day we filmed the motorcycle doing a jump. We used a combination of clay and supports for when it was in the air. Beforehand I also etched some tire tracks into the jump.

Day 4

We did the stretcher scene on this day. We animated Deagan being placed into the ambulance. Simultaneously we brainstormed ideas for editing. We actually forgot to move one of the characters in this scene but decided to keep it as a joke.

Day 5

On this day we animated a scene of the Deagan going down a dirt road. We added some turns and things and made sure it ended with him going in the direction of the crash. We also finalized how we would layout the video.

Day 6

We extended the ambulance scene by a bit by adding a scene of his aunt and uncle getting in. We had trouble making the walking animation clean. So we had to make sure to direct focus away from that.

Day 7

On this day I drew a backdrop for the scene where the ambulance pulls into the hospital. Deagan animated other scenes on the side that build up to the hospital. I took advantage of how much my art style resembled a doodle by hiding jokes in the background.

Day 8

On this day we filmed the hospital scene. I put the backdrop to use and we did an effect of it creeping towards the ambulance. This made it look like the vehicle was approaching the building.

Video:

Super good stop motion movie thing.mov

Reflection:

Using the iMotion app, I created a stop-motion because I wanted to depict the story of how Deagan got in an accident on his dirtbike. I depicted this serious and real story with the creativity of Legos and the editing capabilities of iMovie to display the events. Though at some point I took some liberties I stayed true to this objective throughout the project.
During this process, I learned about animation and editing. I learned about how stop-motion is made of compiled photos of still objects and how you have to edit these compilations to affect their speed and how smooth they are. I also learned about how you can change the angles of your camera for different effects and perspectives.
The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Innovative Designer because throughout this process I had to work with the camera angles and the movement of the vehicles. I used both the physical and digital tools around me to solve these issues. This problem-solving is what connects my project to the standard.
A challenge I overcame on this project was getting the vehicles to look like their wheels were moving. I was able to do it by placing splotches of clay on the wheels. When the splotches moved it made it look like the wheels were moving.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change the shots to have more frames. The reason why I would change it is because I feel that the scenes play in a very choppy manner and I would like for them to be more smooth. I tried passing this off as slow motion but I am not sure if it worked.
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the Engineering Design CTE program at Hastings High School. It connects to this program because I had to engineer techniques to depict certain parts of the story using a process of testing and brainstorming. My project connects to careers in Animation and Special effects. This is because these fields actually include stop-motion just like the kind I used in them.

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