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:

Term 1-Information Report: The Stars

The Stars

Did you know that the average star is between 1 and 10 billion years old? You will most likely have looked up at the night sky at least once or twice, so you definitely need to know what you are looking at right? This book will cover the brightness of stars,what they are made of and constellations.

 

Brightness

Stars are balls of light scattered across the universe, and the reason why stars shine is because of nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion happens deep inside the stars core, it’s when hydrogen atoms smash together creating helium and releasing huge amounts of energy that warms up the gas. Fun fact, most stars you see in the night sky are bigger and brighter than the sun!

 

What stars are made of

Stars are mostly made of hydrogen and helium but the contain small amounts of oxygen,nitrogen and carbon, Stars are also composed of plasma and are formed by the gravitational collapse of large clouds containing cold gas.When the gas is compressed, it heats up and transforms into plasma. the temperature of the stars core depends on the mass of the stars

 

Constellations

A constellation is a group of stars that make up a shape in the night sky. They are mostly named after what they resemble such as Ursa Major (the great bear) or mythological figures like Orion and Hercules. There are also constellations that resemble Zodiac signs such as Pisces or Aries. In fact, all Zodiac signs have a meaning! Like the ones I mentioned , Pisces means “the fishes” and  Aries means  “the Ram/wolf!”

 

Goodbye

It has been a fun time with you we have learnt so many things like the reason stars shine, and what constellations are. But if you are still stuck you can go on these websites: Universe today,  earthsky.org, science for kids, and many more! And with that it is time to end this book, Goodbye!