Stop Motion Movies

Oh what fun we have had trying to make our stop motion movies.  We have had to do a lot of problem solving and learn to use new apps.
We have written stories, created characters, painted background and thought about sound effects.  After that we set to work trying to find the right app to make our movies.
Initially we borrowed some tripods and used cameras to take our photographs.  This was so that our photographs would be taken from the same spot each time and the film wouldn't be jumpy.  Also we only have a few ipads and it allowed some people to be photographing while others could make their movie up using the app on the ipad.  However, this was not as simple as we hoped.  Firstly we couldn't just put the photographs onto the ipads so we saved them in dropbox so we could access them.  Unfortunately the stop motion app wouldn't let us import any photographs, we could only take photographs while in the application.  So we tried to make our movies using the imovie app.  There was a lot of problem solving as we learnt how to shorten the photographs so they moved quickly through but we had trouble with the pictures moving around so our movies were a little jumpy.  Take a look at Lucy's movie:

Then we tried to take our photographs on the ipads.  This created another problem of how we could support the ipad so it wouldn't move while we re-positioned our characters around to take our photographs.  We ended up wedging the ipad between the cellotape dispensers and that worked quite well.  The next problem we came across was that our stories were longer than the number of photographs we had.  We had to learn how to make our pictures freeze so our movie would have some still shots as well.  Timing was everything.  We worked at trying to keep everything in time but it was tricky as you will see in Oliver's movie:

We are still problem solving.  And we are so proud of our efforts.  A lot of learning has gone into these movies and we have problem solved all the way.  To see more of our efforts visit our youtube account at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClso3koG2bwvzv7Moy_U1og