For Year Four’s final film of the year they decided to make a stop frame animation using people rather than model characters. It makes quite a different look to the film and involved hundreds of photos, just for a few seconds of animation. They have really got the hang of using iStopMotion and iMovie to [...]
This year’s group of animators have been the best yet!! We have had 9 entries to Manchester University’s Animation 12 competition involving over 15 children from Year 6. The hardest part now is the wait until the end of May for the results!! Most of this years talented animators have created their own backgrounds and [...]
Our Year 4 animators have been busy this half term making new stop frame animations. They are really getting to grips with planning, photographing and manipulating the images for their films. They used IMovie to edit the films and add titles and music. Each film takes 12 images per second so they had to use [...]
Some children from Year 4 have spent this term getting to grips with making Stop Frame Animations. They created a character called Bob the Bookcase Kid and modelled him from Newplast. The group then split into two and used a digital camera to take lots of photos of their character moving. The put these into [...]
Today some children from each year one class have had their first attempt at making a film. During PPA they filmed each other using a simple animation programme called 2Animate. Their camera.. An iPad 2 using the camera function and a basic version of iMovie! 20110610-092839.mov 20110610-081448.mov 20110610-081149.mov 20110610-080832.mov 20110610-081354.mov
FInally, after lots of technical hitches, Year 5 have produced their first News Report. Unfortunately the sound didnt pick up too well, but they worked really hard and have enjoyed their first go at making a news film. Year 5 News Report from jayne scannali on Vimeo. Make sure you turn your volume up!!
Just in case you haven’t caught our new reports on the big screen in the dining room, and you havent seen the link on the news blog to our film page, here are two News updates. A group of intrepid reporters have been working with Mrs Scannali to write and produce a short fim report which [...]
Year 6 have being using Scratch again this year to create a one minute animation. This years work has been about the Vikings. We thought that Owen in 6MG made a wonderful animation with very little help and we have entered it into the annual Digital Animation Competition run by the University of Manchester. Let’s hope [...]