The Start of the First Scene

In class today I started the first scene of our story where Lucy drives into school. I managed to draw the background, the car and trace Lucy. Next lesson, all I have to do is put Lucy in the car and make it drive along the road into school.
Lauren kept researching how the different characters in our story might look.

Progress

We are making progress! Lauren was away last Friday, so I couldn't really do much without her considering we hadn't done a storyboard yet, but today we did over half of our storyboard which is on track to be finished by next lesson. Then all we have to do is know exactly what our characters are going to look like, finish the storyboard and begin!!! YAY!!! :)

p.s. I will put the storyboard up on my blog when we are finished...

My Story's Journey....

At first I was going to work by myself using Animation-ish. My story was going to be about a family that goes on a car trip, but the story was not very interesting at all and would have put the audience to sleep. There were also too many characters to focus on.

I then decided that I was going to work with Lauren Pennisi. We decided on iStopMotion and were going to do a sort of 'Toy Story' toy war where someone walked out of the room and then the toys came to life and had a huge fight. This idea didn't work out because the story line wasn't very good.

We then came up with our current idea (that we are actually going to use) which is on the post below this one.

Decisions...

I will be working with Lauren Pennisi and we will be using Animation-ish.

Our story will be about a poor boy who meets a rich girl at school, who is forced to work on an assignment with him even though she doesn't want to. They spend time together, working on the assignment, grow closer together and fall in love. Another rich boy becomes jealous of the poor boy and bashes him, threatening to kill if he doesn't break up with the rich girl. The poor boy breaks up with her and they are both unhappy. They see each other at the formal and realise that they are meant to be together. The poor boy walks up to the door of her house and leaves a letter that she reads, then she meets up with him and they get back together.

Pencil Case on iStopMotion...

This is my first attempt at using iStopMotion. My idea was to have things escaping from my pencil case. I am pretty happy with this attempt, although I just need to make sure that I keep my hands out of some of the frames. Here it is!!!

Links to Animation-ish & iStopMotion clips

Animationish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAbpAjnboSM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzSr5F8gt3o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oraONu7Jp_Y&feature=related - this one is very good although slightly violent!

iStopMotion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-Ztku1Tzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXM3wrIhcwY -chess claymation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8ZWMlObGE&feature=related - rubik's cube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZp6LFhDlhA&feature=related

iStopMotion

Tips:
-break movie up into scenes - saving purposes so if it is lost will only lose small part gone not whole thing
-quality not quantity!!!
-don't just make a film with fun techniques - must have a storyline
-could use lego/clay

Using iStopMotion:
- save as iSight full on desktop (drag it from desktop to USB at end of lesson)
-press space bar to capture an image
-file, export, (as quicktime) to save to put on blog

Fish!!!!

I used the fish from the tool-box in Animation-ish and made him swim. Here he is!!!