Stop Motion Teamworking Evidence
In class, we were assigned our second team-working task. Our assignment was to make a stop motion animation with some wooden figures. Everyone was told to write their name on a piece of paper, scrunch it up and then give it to the teacher. He then picked one out at a time until there were two groups of three. In my team there was me, Ashleigh and Kieran. “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work..” (Lombardi, nd)
After the teams were formed , we were given three big pieces of paper, and miscellany items to use. We were given a wooden figure, two wooden hands and some blu-tac, we were allowed to use other items in the room to help, so we added some tape, a piece of paper and a green screen. After we had our items sorted, we then started to discuss what we wanted to create for the animation. After talking, we agreed upon an idea to make our stop motion about football. Ashleigh came up with the idea to use the blu-tac as a football, we then had it so the wooden character would kick the football and score a goal, but then me and Kieran suggested the idea to use the wooden hands to catch the ball like a goalie would. We also thought of using blu-tac to create facial expressions by modelling eye and a mouth, using a pencil to create little holes for the puples.
Once we had our idea we then decided on who would oversee which part, Kieran chose to do the start, Ashleigh chose to do the middle and I chose to do the end of the animation. This meant everyone got an equal share in the project and it sped the process up also. On the three big pieces of paper we all made a storyboard for our sections, making three main frames for the start, middle and end, which totalled nine frames between us all.
Kieran started his first because he had the start and Ashleigh had to see how he would end his section so she could do the middle part. Kieran made the character run and kick the ball, and we communicated about how the character would move and how each section would lead into the next. Ashleigh then started the middle part with the ball being in the air and then landing in the goalies hands. I then started the end part following from this, with the character reacting as he turns away with his head in his hands to show disappointment, I showed this further by having the facial expression become downturned.
We then began to film the stop motion and took turns positioning the objects for our respected scenes, whilst someone else took the pictures on the phone a stop motion app. We help guide each other as we recorded and did some problem solving by using tape to hang the ball so it looked as if it was floating. Because the animation was recorded on Ashleigh’s phone, we created a group chat where the animation was then uploaded to so we all could save it to our own devices.
Reference List:
Lombadi, Vince (nd) Teamworking Quote [Quote]. Available online: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/teamwork-quotes [Accessed: 18/03/2024]