Bringing My Stop Motion Movie to Life: Designing Characters and Backgrounds

This week, we’ve been designing characters and backgrounds for our stop motion movie by hand. We’re elated to share how our designs are coming together! Here’s a look at our progress so far…

This week we started to design our characters and props. In our group, everyone had something to do. Aariya was in charge of all the sea animals, Jiyoon was doing the humans and their props and I did the background and the preliminary human drawing.

Right now, we are working on the background, the humans and the props. Jiyoon is helping me with the background,while I work on this blog. And Aariya is doing the rest of the props. I’m really happy on how the sea animals turned out, way better than the draft.

 

Crafting Our Stop-Motion Storyboard

What is a storyboard?

A storyboard is a bunch of boxes that you can put drawings and/or words to help with the planning process of a story.

Why is it important to complete a storyboard before starting your project?

So that you can have some idea of what you are going to do and how you are going to do it.

Our storyboard is about protecting and conserving oceans. At the start of the storyboard we see a mother taking her baby for a trip to the beach. When they reach there the camera moves underwater where you see the beautiful animals underneath. This helps the viewer get emotionally attached to the animals and when the animals get hurt they are more likely to feel empathy for that said animal. Further on we see a baby turtle and a baby human both getting stuck in plastic. The viewer will realise that they feel sad for the baby human and they can relate to the mama turtles feelings.

The Beauty of a Cinquain poem

The Brilliance of Cats

Cats

Elegant,Adorable

Purring,meowing,yawning

Scrambling for scrumptious food

Animal

 A Cinquain poem is a type of poem that was created by Adelaide Crapsy.

A Didactic Cinquain poem is a poem that instead of syllables, uses the number of words in the poem.

A Didactic Cinquain poem has 5 lines.

The first line has one word, and is about the topic. For example, chairs.
The second line has two words, and most of the time they are adjectives.

The third line has three words, usually i-n-g words

The fourth line has four words and is a phrase or a sentence. For example, a really squishy chair.

The fifth line has one word, and is a synonym of the first line. For example, seat.

An Acrostic poem

My Younger Brother

Robust

Alive

Peculier

Hilarious

Annoying

Energetic

Lenient

An acrostic is a type of poem that has a word laid horizontally on the left side.

For example:

Garden                   The rest of the poem has adjectives on the side.

Amazing

Real

Day

Extraordinary

Neat

 

Kaitiakitanga – STEAM Week 1 Term 4

What is Kaitiakitanga?

Kaitiakitanga are Guardians of the Earth, Which means they conserve, preserve and protect our planet.

Why is it important?

It is important because the earth needs to be liveable for the next generation to survive and thrive in.

How can we show Kaitiakitanga?

We can show Kaitiakitanga by: Picking up trash, conserving water, planting trees, driving less, not disturbing wildlife.

During STEAM we got in groups and made a poster depending on what we learnt about in Term 3. Here is that poster: