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.

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.

Making human caterpillars!

We decided to have another go at animating ourselves today and Mrs Davies helped us to get a little more organised. We got into two lines and the front person led us around in small steps. After each step we took a picture and then put them altogether to make our new movie. We were surprised that our 69 photographs became only 6 seconds of movie when we put it together, we worked out that this means that about 11 pictures makes one second of film.


We've put our new film below for you to enjoy. Next week we are going to try animating characters we have made out of pipe cleaners so do check back to see how they turn out.

Some pictures from our time at camp

Here are some of the pictures of our adventures at camp. We all had a great time and will be sharing more about it when we are back in school after the Easter holidays.

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Watch our rafts in action

We thought you might like to watch us in action. Here's a little video of us building and trying out our amazing rafts. It was a real blast and every raft made it out to the platform across the lake and back in the end. 

Our rafts

Raft making was a great success with some amazing crafts built and successfully sailed across the pond. There were quite a few squeals and lots of laughter.

We're building rafts!

We are currently at the rafting lake working in teams to try and make a raft to get to the other side. I wonder if our ideas will work!