| Activity 1: Locomotion in the Ocean: create a stop-motion animation to show how an animal of the sea moves around in its environment |
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Steps (work in groups of 2, and your teacher can help you with these):
1. Gather examples of illustrated locomotion (movies, text descriptions) from Internet research (follow related links in the Life in the Ocean Home Page, Locomotion section.)
2. Create background scenery for your animation, with appropriately-scaled props, using butcher paper and magic markers, as well as what you know about sea life and depth layers in the ocean.
3. Create your clay-and-wire model for the animation.
4. Filming begins: the animation frames are created by making digital photographs of the model set against the background. When the sequence is completed, the images are downloaded to a project folder in a computer.
7. Sequencing, timing, and looping of the animation begins: use QuickTime Pro to make the project as realistic as possible.
8. Final production begins: narration, music and titles are added to movie, and movie is recorded on a video tape for presentation.
9. Present your movie with your partner. |