The Blob Monster Dance Party!

Our feature week has got off to a great start. Class 3 had a visitor called Jack. Jack works in animation and he helped us make a short dance film using the techniques of stop animation.
We each made a clay friend and gave it a name. Jack brought all of his equipment with him, including webcams, tripods and apple mac computers. He showed us how to use the software to create our animated films.

All we had to do was pick a start position and then move it slightly to make it look like it's moving. Each clasy model had a different style of dancing, such as street dance, ballet, pop and freestyle.

Our teamwork skills were very important, we had to work together to produce our films. The short films are amazing. Jack edited our work so that we now have one class film.

Everyone was sad when they had to break the models up, but Jack explained it was all part of the creative process - plus he needed the clay back!

It was lots of fun, I hope we can do it again. As for our film, make sure you are at this week's celebration assembly for the grand premiere!

Blog written by Holly Altman and Olivia Torrance-Gale