Assignment: Analyzing Motion Pictures

Analyzing Motion Pictures

O B S E RV E

 identify and note details.

Sample Questions:

Describe what you see and hear. · What do you notice first? · Do you only see live action, or are there any special effects or animation? · Describe any words you see on the screen. · What do you

notice about the length of the motion picture? ·Does anything about it seem strange or unusual? ·

What other details do you notice?

R E F L E C T

Generate and test hypotheses about the source. What was the purpose of this motion picture? · Who do you think created it? · Who are the people who appear in it? · What tools and materials were used

to create it? · Do you think it was filmed on location, or was there a stage set? · Who do you think was the intended audience? · What feelings or ideas do

you think its creators wanted to communicate? · If someone created this motion picture rofessionally today, what

would be different?

Q U E S T I O N

Ask questions to lead to more observations and reflections.

What do you wonder about...

who? · what? · when? · where? · why? · how?

Speculate about the purpose of the motion picture and what its

creators expected it to accomplish. Do you think the motion picture

achieved their goals? Explain why you think so.

Stop Motion Film: Editing in Movie Maker

EDITING 

1. Use a program such as Movie Maker 

2. Connect the camera and download images 

3. Open new Project 

4. Click and Drag clips down to the storyboard 

5. Click onto the first frame; press the play button on the preview screen 

6. To insert Title Frame 

7. Tool in the menu Bar, choose add title and credits. Choose Title. Change the font and color by the corresponding 

icons. Make the title larger. You may also change the background color. 

8. Change the Title Animation 

9. To insert Credits Frame 

a. Tool in the menu Bar, choose add title and credits. Choose Credits. 

b. In the top rectangle: Type: Created By, Produced By, or something you come up with. 

c. The boxes on the left will be in Large Font and the boxes on the right will be a small font. This is where 

10. To edit clips: 

a. Select the Timeline view 

b. Preview Window: Press play and the desired spot to "cut" the clip press the pause button- you may 

c. Press the CUT button 

d. Press play to continue to the end of this section that is to be cut. 

e. Press pause to stop and press the CUT button again. 

f. On the timeline, click onto the "Cut" clip section to select it. Right click and select Cut from the menu. The 

g. Repeat until all the unwanted sections are cut out of the timeline. 

11. You may press play and watch the whole video throughout this process as many times as you want or need. 

you type Characters by: Joe P. (no last names) etc. 

rewind the clip to the perfect spot if you do not press pause fast enough. 

section is gone. 

FINAL PROCEDURES and PRESENTATION 

Save As Movie 

1. All short films should be submitted by instructor through Google classroom.

Amazing Stop motion Videos

24 Amazing Stop-Motion Shorts

CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO SEE SOME PRETTY INCREDIBLE STOP MOTION FILMS TO INSPIRE YOU!

Stop Motion Film: ready to shoot?!

BACKGROUNDS

1. Choose one or more backgrounds that will be used throughout the entire story.

2. Create a background for the set using mat board and acrylic or tempera paint or find a location suitable for filming

 

 

PROPS

1. Collect and bring in props to be used on the set.

2. Make additional props to be used on the set.

Character Requirements for Claymation/Small Scale Figures:

 Fits the theme

 Characters are 3 to 4 inches tall or long

 Expressive facial features

 Character is easily movable

 Character stays together throughout the unit

 

 

SET CONSTRUCTION

1. Set up the background

2. Attach any movable part(s) to the background i.e., clouds, birds.

3. Arrange the props for filming

4. Place the characters in their beginning pose.

 

 

FILMING YOUR ANIMATION

1. Using a digital camera or smart phone, take a photo or 3 second shot of your characters in the beginning pose.

2. Slightly move the characters and possible the movable background parts.

3. Again take a photo or 3 seconds of digital video.

4. Continue this process to capture the story’s theme.

5. At least 50 photos should be shot.

 

 

False Advertising: Photo Walk

Please read this short article before we leave! 

Let's see if you can identify with false advertising today! 

 

Post a photo from today's walk, side by side with an advertisement from that business. Write briefly how advertisements are not always what they seem.

Stop Motion Film: Windows Movie Maker

 

1. Open WMM. Open the program called "Windows Movie Maker" that's in your start menu. If you don't already know this software, then you should read a little about How to use it.Go to run(win+R) and type 'moviemk' to run it.

 

2. Import the pictures. Import the series of pictures that you want to make into a stop motion film.

 

 

3. Arrange pictures. Arrange them how you think they should be in your movie. Since a stop motion film are a combination of many pictures, this step might take a while.

 

 

 

 

4. Add in and be creative! Add music or audio, title, subtitle and end text if you want to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch it all at once if you prefer to learn this way....

 

 

 

 

 

Now, you try!

Stop Motion Film: Tips for Making

Creating a stopped motion piece is the perfect way to unite your inner photographer and videographer through a trendy and fun medium. Blending the creativity of photography with the motion of video, stopped motion brings hundreds and thousands of images together to tell a sequential story.

 

 CLICK HERE FOR BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO

Here are some tips for creating a stopped motion piece.

1. Brainstorm your visuals

Through stopped motion you have thousands of images to shoot, but you need to place the same kind of focus you had with one image, and apply it to many. It is probably helpful to discuss an “image” as a “scene”. So, in a movie, every element in a scene is important right? Each element helps to describe the story, thus making it stronger. Same principle is applied in the elements of a photo. Same principle is applied in stopped motion.
For these visuals, your story needs to be extremely strong. And by story, I mean, “series of images”. Just like in video you create a flow of progression from the “scenes” of your story, your “scenes” also must create a progression.

2. Create a storyboard for your stopped motion piece

If you go into stopped motion creation without planning and storyboarding, you will be sunk with a l.o.t. of time in post processing. In video, the medium is in clips. But in photo, the medium is in single images. Unless you have thought out what elements and scenes you want in your piece, you will have the unfortunate experience of sorting through thousands of individual photos to try and put the piece together. Take my advice. It is challenging enough to work with thousands of individual photo’s when you have your piece planned out. Without a plan, you will be left with trying to sort through what series of photo’s to move where, etc. etc. and it’s just incredibly complicated. So don’t do that. Story board.
I’m sure you’ve heard enough about storyboarding from the great “making of” specials on different movies, but practically, how do you dissect a story board?

• Start with a script. You must k.n.o.w. what you want to communicate. Sometimes it’s easier to start this in writing. Write a story just like any other. Intro, which explains the characters and the core of the film. The development, in which more elements are introduced to further complicate or challenge what already existed. And then the conclusion and resolution of story and all it’s elements where your audience can take away the final message.
• Mentally visualize your story. What visual elements create the intro, the development, and the conclusion? Will you need to alternate between wide angle and detail shots? Remember, the point of stopped motion is to literally CATCH MOTION. The series of HOW you catch that motion is what you need to visualize.

3. Shoot to NOT edit

The point of a stopped motion piece is not individual photos. The point is multiple image series capturing motion. You don’t have the time to edit each individual shot. You will be editing the series – culling and placing them into a timeline.This means that unless you “shoot to kill” you are going to be wasting a lot of time simply because you didn’t get it right the first time. Now, this is not to say that you don’t have the freedom to make artistic edits, but remember it is going to add more time. Using Imovie, Windows Movie Maker, or Final Cut Express will give you a variety of editing options for your disposal.

4. Add audio to give emotion and connect the story

Audio isn’t the main point of a stopped motion film, but it most certainly can strengthen the piece by magnanimous proportions. Sometimes the audio will simply be music. Sometimes it will be sounds. Sometimes it will be narration. Sometimes it will be all three. It truly just depends on the scope of the project. Sometimes it is easier to start with audio and add visuals, but it can be much simpler to plan audio when nearing the completion of visual assembling. Then I can determine how much audio to bring in and what the feel of it ought to be.

Stop Motion Film: The Details

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STOP-MOTION SHORT FILM:

STORY BOARD

1. Create a simple storyboard of eight to ten pictures that will be the main story of your film.

2. Keep the story board simple using stick "people". (use as many copies as necessary)

3. The storyboard should also have the parts of the background that will be in motion, i.e. clouds.

 

 

BACKGROUNDS

1. Choose one or more backgrounds that will be used throughout the entire story.

2. Create a background for the set using mat board and acrylic or tempera paint or find a location suitable for filming

 

 

PROPS

1. Collect and bring in props to be used on the set.

2. Make additional props to be used on the set.

Character Requirements for Claymation/Small Scale Figures:

 Fits the theme

 Characters are 3 to 4 inches tall or long

 Expressive facial features

 Character is easily movable

 Character stays together throughout the unit

 

 

SET CONSTRUCTION

1. Set up the background

2. Attach any movable part(s) to the background i.e., clouds, birds.

3. Arrange the props for filming

4. Place the characters in their beginning pose.

 

 

FILMING YOUR ANIMATION

1. Using a digital camera or smart phone, take a photo or 3 second shot of your characters in the beginning pose.

2. Slightly move the characters and possible the movable background parts.

3. Again take a photo or 3 seconds of digital video.

4. Continue this process to capture the story’s theme.

5. At least 50 photos should be shot.

 

 

Assignment: Stop Motion Film

Stop Motion Film Project!

You can create shorts such as a PSA, a documentary,
a quick skit, a historical re-enactment, a cooking show, a science
experiment gone wrong, an original drama, a recreation of the favorite book in 5 minutes, a music video, a how-to video, a talk-show,or just about anything that works under 5 minutes!

 

 

Film submissions are judged on their overall artistic and technical quality.
Films should be no longer than 5 minutes in length.
Groups of 2-3 students have worked well in the past.

Film Festival will be showcased at the end of May 2015
For Tips, Ideas, How-to’s, Submission Requirements, and to Submit your Video
Join Google Classroom, Class code: lw0ahlh