Creating media: Stop motion: Using tablets

Creating simple animations, storyboarding creative ideas and decomposing a story into small parts of action.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure  will be able to:

  • Create a flip book animation.
  • Decompose a story into smaller parts to plan a stop motion animation.
  • Create stop motion animations with small changes between images.

Suggested prior learning

Creating media: Digital imagery

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Lessons

Lesson 1: What is animation?

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Lesson 2: My first animation

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Lesson 3: Planning my project

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Lesson 4: Creating my project

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Lesson 5: Creating my project

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Key skills

  • Using greater
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Key knowledge

  • To understand
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Key vocabulary

animation

background

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Knowledge organiser – Computing Y2: Stop motion

Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Creating media: Stop motion".

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Vocabulary display – Computing Y2: Stop motion – Option 1: Using tablets

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Stop motion - Option 1: Using tablets'.

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Cross-curricular opportunities

Art and design

Suggested next steps

Video trailers – Option 2: Using iPads

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