Stop motion - Option 2: Using desktops/laptops

Creating simple animations, storyboarding creative ideas and decomposing a story into small parts of action.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Create a flip book animation.
  • Take clear, in-focus photographs using a digital camera.
  • Upload images from the school network.
  • Decompose a story into smaller parts to plan a stop motion animation.
  • Create stop motion animations with small changes between images.

Suggested prior learning

Creating media: Digital imagery

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Lessons

Lesson 1: What is animation?

  • To understand what animation is.
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Lesson 2: Taking photographs

  • To take clear photographs using a digital camera.
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Lesson 3: My first animation

  • To create a stop motion animation.
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Lesson 4: Planning my project

  • To plan my stop motion animation.
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Lesson 5: Creating my project

  • To create a stop motion animation.
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Key skills

  • Using greater

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Key knowledge

  • To understand

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Key vocabulary

animate

animation

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Assessment – Computing Y2: Stop motion (Option 2: Devices with cameras)

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Computing: Long-term plans

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Computing: Equipment & resource lists

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Assessment

Spreadsheet for Kapow Primary's Computing scheme

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Computing: Statutory and non-statutory mapping documents

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Cross-curricular opportunities

Art and design

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Video trailers – Option 1: Using devices other than iPads

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