Introduction to Stop-Motion Animation: Teacher Material
Producing a Stop-Motion Animation
Now show students the video in the student chapter Stop-Motion Animation: Production.
The video will pause twice with a question on the screen. Ask students the questions to reinforce their learning:
- So it doesn’t move when we take a picture.
- About the size of an ant.
- Photographer (who takes pictures on the tablet)
- Animator (who moves the characters)
- Director (who watches to make sure everything is set up right before the photographer takes each picture)
Now give students time to make their animation.
Make sure students know how to save a project on the app.
Have students start filming their animation by taking ten pictures (shooting ten frames) without movement.
Next, have students shoot ten frames with movement.
- Remind them that they are telling the story in their storyboard, but that they will have one hundred shots to tell it with – so each part of their story should be around thirty frames.
If students have finished early, they can review their animation to see if anything needs to be changed.
If you are ending the lesson here, have students export their animations. You can either have them show the animations on the tablets in small groups, or upload them to a school account and project them for the class.