WHAT DOES STOP MOTION MEAN?
Stop motion is an animated-film making technique that consists on pretending the movement of static objects using a series of successive still images. We don't use this term referring to those animations drawn like cartoons or designed by computers computer animation, but created taking pictures of reality. So, stop motion is used to produce animated movements from any object (it can be rigid or malleable), such as toys, building blocks, articulated dummies or clay figures.
Stop motion animation using plasticine figures is called clay animation or claymation.
There are many procedures of animated-film making in stop-motion due to the artistic character of this technique. So each artist adapts it to his/her expressive needs. Stop motion offers the possibility of creating a wide range of methods and variations.
EXAMPLES
Here you have claymation examples:
In the following link, Benito, you'll discover a sensitive story. It is a short film produced with stop motion technique done to raise awareness about Alzheimer illness. The authors are Carlos J. Fernández and Luis Palacios, and the original soundtrack was created by Alain Peña. They won Animainzon Award in 2012 and 2nd award in Pixenlaces in 2012.
In the following link you would find the Making Off de Benito. |
Here you can watch a chapter of DC's World's Funnest.
CLAYMATION
We could distinguish two great variants of animation in stop motion: the one made with plasticine or any other malleable material (also known as claymation) and the one made with rigid objects. We are going to use plasticine, but we can introduce any other rigid element to enrich the scene.
You can see the following animation. It is a funny scene.
In the class you can watch more stories with the teachers.
STEPS TO FOLLOW TO DO THE CHALLENGE
On the tablet you'll use the app STOP MOTION STUDIO.
You are going to work in teams in your classes or in the Arts Class. Each day you have to put the plasticine figures and the scene elements inside a box, each team has to have one.
ACTIVITY 1: STORY BOARD
ACTIVIDAD 2: CLAYMATION
ACTIVITY 3: BLOG
If you don't deliver something, it is not going to be corrected.
You are going to work in teams in your classes or in the Arts Class. Each day you have to put the plasticine figures and the scene elements inside a box, each team has to have one.
ACTIVITY 1: STORY BOARD
- Creating the idea. It has to be a short and simple story line, related with your "Superhero", but it has not necessary to be a main character. It can be a funny and comical anecdote. On a sheet you'll write the idea and will set the characters or elements that would appear. You will decide the different frames, shots, points of view or light you are going to use.
- You have to do a simple story board: It is very important to think of the distribution of the elements over the scenery you are going to create, as well as in the composition, the frame and how to highlight the right things each moment.
- Each member of the team has to upload this activity to Classroom, saying which are his/her contributions.
ACTIVIDAD 2: CLAYMATION
- Once the teacher has seen the script and storyboard, she would give you the materials: plasticine, wire to create the skeleton you would cover with plasticine. Fishing line is useful to hang objects on the air. Continuous paper can be used to create a background with its original colour or you can paint it to enrich the scene. Use modeling tools as well as hands to model figures.
- In each photograph you take of the scene, the changes you do to each element has to be very small in order to pass the pictures to the app giving the feeling of continuity in movement is correct.
- After each session you have to put everything in a box and also when you finish the challenge.
- You can put soundtrack, title and credits or dialogues to your stop motion.
ACTIVITY 3: BLOG
- At least once a week you have to write on the blog you have created. You have to write about what and how you have been working these days and upload pictures of the process. Please, upload the link to CLassroom.
- At the end of the challenge, each member of the team has to upload the video and the link to the blog where it is situated.
If you don't deliver something, it is not going to be corrected.
ONCE FINISH THE CHALLENGE EACH TEAM......
You have to upload your claymations and storyboards to Google Classroom individually, telling which part has been done by each one of the members.
Don't forget to upload the video to your blog, created at Technology challenge.
Remember that your key skills (planning, team working and responsibility) are reflected on the registration form and represent a 10% of the mark.
Once finished the project, the teachers would set the date to show the claymations to all the school members. Sceneries and characters would be shown as well in a place of the school still to determine.
Don't forget to upload the video to your blog, created at Technology challenge.
Remember that your key skills (planning, team working and responsibility) are reflected on the registration form and represent a 10% of the mark.
Once finished the project, the teachers would set the date to show the claymations to all the school members. Sceneries and characters would be shown as well in a place of the school still to determine.
Using materials in an incorrect way would mean a negative mark, independently of the final result.