Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Stop Motion Animation

In Year 6, we have been learning about Isambard Kingdom Brunel in our History lessons. This week and last week, we have been planning and making a stop motion animation video about one of Isambard's inventions (e.g Clifton Suspension Bridge).

First, we had to research facts about Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his inventions. Later in the lesson, we planned a story board about one of his inventions and made the characters that were in our plan,out of plasticine. This was quite tricky because we had to try to make the models lifelike and the plasticine was too hard to mould.

Groups models

Today, when we had finished our plastacine models, we started to make our stop motion animation film using Digital Blue Cameras . This was really fun and exciting but it was really challenging because we had to make every shot perfect. For example, we kept taking photos of each others hands which meant that we had to start our scene all over again. First, our teacher demonstrated to some of the people how to use stop motion animation. Those children who already knew how to use stop motion animation started doing their work straight away. Next, we had to stick our backgrounds onto our stage before we got started. Afterwards, started to film. We started by taking fifteen shots to start our film. Every other small move that we made, we took three shots. In the next few weeks, we will start adding extra bits like narration.

Here is an example of the initial scenes from our groups movie: