Lets go fly a kite

We have been making kites over the last couple of weeks and finding out about how they fly. Today we got to take the kites out onto our school field to test them out and have some fun. It was a great way to celebrate the end of term and lots of fun was had by all...

Marija's animation

Continuing in our series of procedural writing about our animations, today Marija is going to share her piece...

Animations

Animations are like mini movies with mini people only you need a normal camera to take little pictures . Then ,when you put them all together....BAM! You have an animation! We made animations about camp. 

So first we decided what camp activity we were going to do, then we made a background and painted it lots of colours! After that, we started to make our mini people! 

We drew our mini people and put them in our AWESOME ANIMATIONS! Each of us took 10 to 20 pictures before we started to move our mini people. 

When we finally finished, we uploaded the animations onto the computer, saved them as movies, and we all had fun watching them when our parents came! 

Ella's animation writing

Today Ella is going to share her piece of writing about how we made our animations...

How to make animation

Animation is lots of individual photos joint together in chronological order to make movement. The animation I’m going to talk about is 2D, we made ours in room 8 about our school camp

Firstly you need to plan what your going to do on a A3 piece of paper then you neatly draw  your background on a A1 sized piece of paper. After that you paint your background with a fat brush first then a skinny brush to do the detail. Soon after the paint has dried put in extra details with pastel.

Next you need to make a person out of paper (that person being you). To make that paper person you need to draw all the different joints including your body and head. Before cutting the bits out you will need to draw your face and clothes. Once you’ve finished that you need to inky/sharpie your person and colour him/her in. Then cut out the pieces and use bluetac to stick him/her together. Why do you need to use bluetac? Because if you use glue or tape your person won’t able to move!

Later, if you need props draw them, inky them and then lastly colour them!

Afterwards, set up a special place for your background so you can only see the background and nothing else. Set up your people and props in the right spot ready to film. To start you need to take 10-20 pictures without moving your person because you don’t want to go straight into the action that would ruin it. Start to move your people in small movements and take a photo after every movement.

When you’ve taken about 100-200 photos, you upload your pictures onto a computer and put them together on a movie editing program. If there are any unwanted pictures that you’ve taken now’s the chance to remove them. After that you will need to add in credits and titles, and if you want any you can put in music and sound effects. Last but not least save it as a movie in a folder so it won’t get lost.

I felt good about my movie because it turned out really well. Making it gave me an opportunity to film and makes an animation which made me feel great. If I we’re you and you hadn’t done this I’d probably have a go!

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.

Haiku Poems

On Friday Room 8 learnt about Haiku poetry and has a go at writing some about different subjects. They were keen to share their creations with you and they would love to hear your thoughts.

Cats (Ella)

Mouth open slightly

Searching for delicious prey

Pounce! The prey’s caught

Spring is here (Gwen)

A soft breeze flows around

New born roses rise upward

Knowing spring is here

Coldness (Lilly)

Coldness drifting through

Coldness coming back again

Warmness come back please

Spring (Viola)

Spring flowers growing

Trees reach to the horizon

Blossoms fill the earth...

Sun (Dion)

Shining above now

Following me everywhere

Giant yellow sun

Moon (Anton)

Huge luminous ball

That’s glued on a starry quit

The ball is the moon

 Leaves (Aspen)

Colours are twirling

Calling to me as they dance

Very crispy and light

Leaves (Billy)

Flowing in the wind

Brown, red, and bushy evergreens,

Crisp, dry leaves everywhere

War (Izzy Q)

Flowers squashed by soldiers

Once grassy fields now concrete battle zones

Depressing feelings strike my body

Snow (James)

Snow signalling me

Calling for the chill slowly

Melting itself sad

Amazing Animations

Our animations about camp are finished and we held our world premier in class this afternoon. Now it is your turn to get to watch them, we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them and as always we would love to hear your comments.

Raft Building

The Mudslide

The Muddy Challenge

Kayaking

The Hydroslide

The Flying Fox

The Burma Trail

The Flying Fox