For the first part of the school year we were assigned to make a claymation. We went to the library in Langley and got books on the explorer we wanted to learn more about. Our task was to attempt to make little clay people and have them move across the screen. But not with a Video camera, just a camera. Moving the clay people very slowly around to make an attempt at producing a claymation.
The most fun that I had making this claymation was taking the pictures and putting them together in iMovie. I like taking pictures and this was fun. As your putting the pictures on the computer you get to slowly watch it come together. At first I thought it was not going to work out but it became second nature day after day and week after week. I also liked putting them together on the computer. It was fun trying to put them together and making it fast and sleek. After taking pictures and loading them onto the computer it was fun having to do all the finishing touches. We made a beginning picture, credits, and added sound and music. Before we started the claymation we made a map and put that into the movie. Making the map was another fun part because we got to find out where exactly Columbus went and how many voyages he went on.
The least fun thing that I did was making the outline. Before we were allowed to start making our claymation hands on we had to make a big, detailed outline of everything that was going to happen in our claymation. I don't like drawing, more like I can't and I don't like writing. It turned out "okay" you could say but the first time we turned it in we got 27 out of 60. Mr. B said that it wasn't detailed enough and we didn't have enough information on it. We perfected the map as much as we could and got a much better grade on it. The other thing i didn't like about making the claymation was that we didn't have enough space to take pictures and work on the computer. We made it work but it would have gone a lot faster if one person could have been taking pictures and another person could have been editing the pictures. Over all everything was pretty good except sometimes we wouldn't have enough time to edit the video and take pictures so we turned in some of the scenes a day late. Also I thought that taking pictures would be easy but it was pretty hard. You had to keep the camera from moving, move the people a very small amount, and make sure to not knock anything over.
I learned a lot from making this claymation. I learned to work better with people and use other peoples ideas. I thought it was good to learn to use new programs more and be more compatible with what other people wanted. At first I thought this was going to be impossible and it would never get done. After making the third or forth scene in two weeks I realized that it was hard work but it was not impossible. I am glad that we didn't have any problems like people deleting our claymation or people deleting the voice recordings. It was a good learning experience and being able to learn more about using computers better. It was good to have patience and knowing that you have to wait a while to get what you want. It was better to be in a room that there werent a lot of people. It helped a lot with recording the voice becase there wasn't anyone around, talking or making noise.
This was a fun project. I liked working on putting everything together and putting all the finishing touches on the claymation. It was a fun porject and I liked doing it. It was fun and I learned a lot from it. I hope that later in the year we do other projects like this one!
This was a fun project. I liked working on putting everything together and putting all the finishing touches on the claymation. It was a fun porject and I liked doing it. It was fun and I learned a lot from it. I hope that later in the year we do other projects like this one!
