Muddy verse

We have been writing free verse about our experience on the mudslide at camp. Check out some of our poems below and please don't be afraid to leave us a comment.

Claymation

Room 8 have a had go at claymation after our success with the pipe cleaner creations. We each created a little creature out of plastercine (complete with googly eyes!) Then in groups of six we worked to make them come to life. As with the pipe cleaner creations we had to take lots of photos as we needed at least ten to make a second of film. Mrs Davies then put the movies together and added some music.

We are now working on our camp animations, these will take a little while but we will share when they are done so keep checking back. In the meantime we hope you enjoy the claymation and as always we'd love to hear your comments.

Strange creatures discovered in Room 8

Some rather interesting little creatures have been appearing in Room 8...
I wonder what they are up to?

Animating at home

Dion and James have been trying out their animation skills at home. Dion decided to create an action movie about a fire using his lego and James thought he would bring his camera and a battery charger to life. They both did this without any help and I think you'll agree the results are pretty impressive.

Pipe Cleaner Animation

Room 8 explain how they made their pipe cleaner animation.

On Tuesday we made some amazing animations with pipe cleaners. First we needed to craft our fantastic creatures. We twisted and turned the pipe cleaners to make their bodies. We then got into groups and planned what our creations would do. We set them up in the starting pose and then using a camera on a tripod we took five pictures. These pictures gave us a rest before the action started. After that we moved the creatures a little amount and then took another picture. We repeated this procedure 80 to 100 times.

 

Next we had to take the pictures from the camera onto the computer. We used a movie making piece of software to run one after another. We wanted the pictures to run at 10 frames per second. This made the creatures look like they were moving.

We hope you enjoy it.