Writing about animation

We have been learning about procedural writing in Room 8 and using our learning to write about creating our animations. We looked at other examples, analysed what we needed to put into our writing and then created our own piece of procedural writing to describe our animation process. We will be sharing some of these pieces. To start us off Viola shares her piece of writing...

Artistic animation

What is animation? Its lots of pictures, a movie, heaps of hard work and definitely lots of fun! This is how a 2D animation is made.

This animation is about our camp experiences. Firstly we planned all the things we wanted. Then we drew our back ground on an A1 piece of paper. After drawing we painted and pasteled the background for detail.

Meanwhile, we made our paper people and coloured them. We stuck our people together with blue–tack so we could move them, twist them and turn them into different positions. Then we made any other props we might need.

After all that preparation, we set up our background, people and camera ready to film. This is how you do it: first you take 10- 20 pictures without moving your people. This creates a pause at the start of your movie. Then you move your person a tiny amount and take one picture between each movement. We carried this on until we had about 100-200 pictures.

Lastly we uploaded our pictures onto a movie editing program. This made the pictures flow together like a real movie. We removed any unwanted pictures and added in all the titles, credits, music and sound effects. Finally we saved it as our very own movie! 

I felt like a star as everyone watched my little movie at the world premier and knew I had to do it again. I hope you will enjoy making your own movie as well.