Creating media: Stop motion: Using desktops/laptops
Creating simple animations, storyboarding creative ideas and decomposing a story into small parts of action.
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Creating media: Stop motion: Using desktops/laptops
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Create a flip book animation.
- Take clear, in-focus photographs using a digital camera.
- Upload images from the school network.
- Decompose a story into smaller parts to plan a stop motion animation.
- Create stop motion animations with small changes between images.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is animation?
Lesson 2: Taking photographs
Lesson 3: My first animation
Lesson 4: Planning my project
Lesson 5: Creating my project
Key knowledge
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Related content
Unit resources
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".
Vocabulary display – Computing Y2: Stop-motion – Option 2: Using desktops/laptops
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Stop-motion - Option 2: Using desktops/laptops'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Art and design
Suggested next steps
Video trailers – Option 1: Using devices other than iPads
There are alternative options available for this unit.