Stop Motion Videos
For this unit, we made stop motion videos with a group and also created clay sculptures or linoleum cuts for sculpture week. In this blog, I'm going to explain more about my group's stop motion video and how we created it.
First off, a stop motion film is a short video compiled of lots of pictures put together. When all the pictures are put together and presented at a fast pace, they all come together to show a choppy, yet unique form of a movie.
On my Pinterest, there is a board with lots of stop motion videos that we used for inspiration when we also created our zombie apocalypse video.
http://www.pinterest.com/midori1906/stop-motion-videos/
Before beginning to make our stop motion, we watched a video about a guy who made his own stop motion videos that were really good. We saw how he used techniques like making sure the camera and pictures were lined up each time and we made a note to try and make sure we did that in ours too. There were also people in my group that had previously been in the zombie stop motion film and had experience from that as well. After learning how to make a stop motion, we started making our own.
How to make a Stop Motion
To start off, we made a storyboard to brainstorm ideas and make a plan for what our video was going to be about and what each scene would basically be showing. For ours, we decided to use play-doh to create flowers and make our stop motion showing a visual representation of how flowers grow and then blow away.
When making a stop motion, most people don't have a really nice, expensive cameras, so you can easily capture everything on your phone and compile it together on an app in the app store called "Stop Motion." It's a free app but if you want to add effects like music or background sounds/effects, you have to buy the full version for $.99. By using this app, you can start taking the pictures that will be in your stop motion video. As you are taking pictures, slowly make small changes that will later be moving more quickly in your video. Definitely make sure these changes are small and gradual because it will make your stop motion look more smooth and better put together in the end.
After you've taken all the pictures and made all the changes you want, you can add final touches like background music or effects. Then you import to your camera roll and watch it!
Here is a link to the stop motion my group made...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxJxSZEZX2o
As you can see, we began with the scenery of the green play-doh as grass, and that set the scene for the rest of our stop motion. With lots of pictures, we showed tiny movements that came together at the end to make a video of how the seeds grew into buds, then flowers, then blew away in the wind to regrow.
Something new we tried was adding music and sound effects to make it a little more interesting. I bought the full version of the app and I was able to add a background song and tried my best to add sound effects at the right point in the video to align with what was going on. I think this really pulled it together and I think this time around, we did a lot better with our stop motion. We held the camera a lot more still which is really noticeable, and even tried to incorporate more movement in the closing with our names on the note card.
To wrap it up, this was a fun unit where we got to learn more about stop motions and create our own.
Feel free to watch our stop motion!
First off, a stop motion film is a short video compiled of lots of pictures put together. When all the pictures are put together and presented at a fast pace, they all come together to show a choppy, yet unique form of a movie.
On my Pinterest, there is a board with lots of stop motion videos that we used for inspiration when we also created our zombie apocalypse video.
http://www.pinterest.com/midori1906/stop-motion-videos/
Before beginning to make our stop motion, we watched a video about a guy who made his own stop motion videos that were really good. We saw how he used techniques like making sure the camera and pictures were lined up each time and we made a note to try and make sure we did that in ours too. There were also people in my group that had previously been in the zombie stop motion film and had experience from that as well. After learning how to make a stop motion, we started making our own.
How to make a Stop Motion
To start off, we made a storyboard to brainstorm ideas and make a plan for what our video was going to be about and what each scene would basically be showing. For ours, we decided to use play-doh to create flowers and make our stop motion showing a visual representation of how flowers grow and then blow away.
When making a stop motion, most people don't have a really nice, expensive cameras, so you can easily capture everything on your phone and compile it together on an app in the app store called "Stop Motion." It's a free app but if you want to add effects like music or background sounds/effects, you have to buy the full version for $.99. By using this app, you can start taking the pictures that will be in your stop motion video. As you are taking pictures, slowly make small changes that will later be moving more quickly in your video. Definitely make sure these changes are small and gradual because it will make your stop motion look more smooth and better put together in the end.
After you've taken all the pictures and made all the changes you want, you can add final touches like background music or effects. Then you import to your camera roll and watch it!
Here is a link to the stop motion my group made...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxJxSZEZX2o
As you can see, we began with the scenery of the green play-doh as grass, and that set the scene for the rest of our stop motion. With lots of pictures, we showed tiny movements that came together at the end to make a video of how the seeds grew into buds, then flowers, then blew away in the wind to regrow.
Something new we tried was adding music and sound effects to make it a little more interesting. I bought the full version of the app and I was able to add a background song and tried my best to add sound effects at the right point in the video to align with what was going on. I think this really pulled it together and I think this time around, we did a lot better with our stop motion. We held the camera a lot more still which is really noticeable, and even tried to incorporate more movement in the closing with our names on the note card.
To wrap it up, this was a fun unit where we got to learn more about stop motions and create our own.
Feel free to watch our stop motion!