Week+6

**Week 6**

//Experimenting with motion//

Students arrived in the Senior Art Room to find the room looking quite different to normal. Each table was set up with a green fabric screen, a wooden board plus a laptop and camera.

Students began the session with forming hands. Using the fimo clay each student made one hand each.

Gregg introduced the equipment to the girls The wooden boards are the stages, there are holes which the girls will use the tie downs (bolts and knuts on end of characters feet) to hold the characters in place The green fabric screen is to be used a the background, later we'll be able to put diffent filmed shots onto our backgrounds (for example a circus tent)

The software we'll be using for making our animated film is Stop Motion Pro.

We'll try to use 12 shots per second to create our motion (often animators use 24 shots per second) //see Motion Play sheet.//

As a class we watched Gregg show us what to do - including setting up the software for filming each shot. Then the class were separated into groups and set up their cameras and laptops and got to experiment on their own.

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//Experimenting with the software and using the cameras//





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