Stop Motion Movie: Rubric Assesment 'Adventures of Mark- Wear Your Helmet'
To begin this project our group started by viewing other stop motion whiteboard videos on YouTube. After watching the videos we gained an idea on the techniques used to make the stop motion videos. Some techniques were to: make the scenery move instead of the person, to experiment with props, and to change the shape of something to create different effects. Before working on our actual video, Alex and I experimented with a test video. Then one day Devin and Alex developed a storyboard, because the rubric says to have a project that sends a message. Our group’s message was to wear your helmet. The story of our video shows Mark leaving class, because the fire alarm goes off. Instead of grabbing a helmet Mark says he doesn’t need one. Mark then goes on a wild stunt filled adventure where he doesn’t get hurt. Some stunts he does are zip lining, back flips, and riding a bike up a ramp ding a flip and landing back on the another ramp. Mark is able to survive all of these perils. But when a mere pebble is thrown into Mark’s way, he is ejected from his bike and goes soaring through the air. Mark lands face first into the ground and the movie end with him bleeding and the sun telling him he should’ve worn his backpack.
Some problems we faced in the production of our video were redrawing items, make Mark do his tricks, and lining up the camera. To solve the problem of redrawing items, Alex would draw over the previously placed item and try to mimic the same shape and size. After awhile our markers began to dry out, so finding new markers and having to continue drawing the scenes proved to be quite difficult. But after awhile we were able to use a new, better marker. A problem we also came across was reaching our time standard of 30secs. To add more time in our movie, we added scenes like Mark riding his bike to each stunt, or adding more time when he was in the air. Our group was successfully able to have continuity in our video. By having the scenery move it created a smoother cleaner look too. Because we could not use “props” in our film we used different colored markers to add some effects. Because the video had to have an ethical value, we kept our language proper, and we did not “go too far” with the elements of our video.
Some problems we faced in the production of our video were redrawing items, make Mark do his tricks, and lining up the camera. To solve the problem of redrawing items, Alex would draw over the previously placed item and try to mimic the same shape and size. After awhile our markers began to dry out, so finding new markers and having to continue drawing the scenes proved to be quite difficult. But after awhile we were able to use a new, better marker. A problem we also came across was reaching our time standard of 30secs. To add more time in our movie, we added scenes like Mark riding his bike to each stunt, or adding more time when he was in the air. Our group was successfully able to have continuity in our video. By having the scenery move it created a smoother cleaner look too. Because we could not use “props” in our film we used different colored markers to add some effects. Because the video had to have an ethical value, we kept our language proper, and we did not “go too far” with the elements of our video.