Film Club stop-frame animation experiments.

Inspired by watching the fantastic French language stop-frame animation film 'A Town Called Panic' we decided to have a go at our films today. We watched the trailer to the movie and commented on how they made it and how achievable it could be.

After a demonstration on how to use the app KomaKoma, the pupils broke into groups, grabbed iPads and materials and created their films. Here are their efforts.

Ruby, Chloe and Seren

Skye, Bethany and Lucy

Aaron, Kallum and Leo

Ellie and Connor

Lawson and Lukas

Lawson and Lukas

A few text messages between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

We tried to imagine what a conversation would look like between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth if it took place today. How would they communicate if they had mobile phones? We placed our scenario at the moment Macbeth finds out about his future destiny through the three witches' prophecy.

We then went on www.classtools.net and used the SMS generator function to type out our dialogues on iPads.

Here are some of our efforts: (They may take a while to load)


Aaron and Kallum

Leo and Brandon
Ruby and Regan
Alastair and Ciaran
Connor and Kianna
Dylan A and Chloe
Dylan C and Cerys
Ellie and Alisha-May

Back up links
Alastair and Ciaran: www.clastools.net/SMS/16_kVTQQF
Ellie and Alisha-May: www.clastools.net/SMS/39_dHaQWA
Ruby and Regan: www.clastools.net/SMS/49_XSaZ53
Connor and Kianna: www.clastools.net/SMS/83_2WMJcH
Dylan A and Chloe: www.clastools.net/SMS/58_GA3Dcc
Dylan C and Cerys: www.clastools.net/SMS/60_2ZES3V
Seren and Denrard: www.clastools.net/SMS/58_kfD87J
Aaron and Kallum: www.clastools.net/SMS/7_6RZDcL
Leo and Brandon: www.clastools.net/SMS/34_Q847ZZ

Macbeth adventures so far...

We have started the new year off by beginning our look at William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Our first challenge was investigating a murder!

Based on minor introductory CSI information, these were our Macbeth - who killed King Duncan predictions https://t.co/mz80srmahN via

— lps140club (@lps140club) January 9, 2018

Envelopes full of CSI information then appeared in class for the pupils to interrogate and try to catch the killer of King Duncan.

Some top secret case envelopes appeared in class today with suspect information on the regicide of King Duncan. #csimacbeth @llanharanps pic.twitter.com/xl9Lv0WJU4

— lps140club (@lps140club) January 10, 2018

Getting in on the action of the year of animation (Anim18) we watched a short musical animation that told us the full story of Macbeth.

Watching a fantastic BBC Bitesize animation of Macbeth to learn the overview of the story #Anim18 @intofilm_cymru pic.twitter.com/B8RB9fvuzX

— lps140club (@lps140club) January 15, 2018

After learning about the story and identifying the main events, we traced the emotional journeys of the main protagonists through an axis of emotion.

We have been looking at the emotional journey of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth through the use of axis of emotion. pic.twitter.com/XvZI3f8GrP

— lps140club (@lps140club) January 16, 2018

We also tracked the interrelationships of the main characters through sociograms.

Using the Simspons to model sociograms so the class can create one for Macbeth. pic.twitter.com/2ogHQkJLgS

— lps140club (@lps140club) January 17, 2018