Mini Masterpieces

On the same day that we made the Zoetrope films we also had a go at making some very short films just using the classroom. Again they were to tell a story but this time it was all going to be live, we had to think about props and costumes and what shots there were going to be in the film. This was to get us thinking about how we can tell a story and to get us used to using the Flip cameras to film each other.

At the end of the day we used the NetBook computers to transfer the film from the camera and onto the school's network. We had a bit of trouble with this because of the space available and the number of film we had made.

Zoetropes

Zoetropes are quite an old way to make images appear to be moving or animated, they were first made in the form that we recognise in the 19th century, however the idea goes back to ancient china.

we wanted our Zoetropes to tell a story, it was a story of going to get some food, and the animations would relate to the three different ages.

Andy and Dave had made some examples and a zoetrope made from lego, two old CDs, a CD stack box and some card.

Here is a drawing of the zoetrope