Hey guys. I have to film a stop motion project (just a short video) for Friday, but I can't come up with any simple, but good ideas. Please help me! If I decide to choose one of your ideas, I will probably give the winner a prize, and (depending how many people participate) I might give each of you a small gift Thanks! I can use anything but I don't have many supplies, I was thinking of drawing something. Maybe like a flipbook
make word art with some skittles, sweets or m&ms! that's what i did in year 8 for tutor group! i think i drew some things with the different colours and wrote some words around it to animate it a bit. i'll dig around to see if i can find it
I'm a big fan of flipbooks! They're not too difficult to make either. Do you have any themes in mind? I might be able to brain storm some ideas with that information.
I can be as creative as I want! Ooh thanks!! I don't think I have any sweets at home since I'm not really a fan of them (also skittles are not sold here and I always eat M&Ms as soon as I buy them. But I could draw circles or a sort of skittles with different colors. Not really, I've been thinking I could show some kind of story with a powerful message Thank you for your input. I love legos too! I made a stop motion once with legos, but I recently donated all of them :c
flipbooks are nice but I like drawings that r then cut out and moved around. if u have like toy soldiers or dolls left from childhood those are eaiser
If it's a powerful message you are after, you need to think about what you want that message to say. Some of the points from 7 Lessons for Delivering a Powerful Message | Writer's Digest might help you. This website has helped me write a few speeches for English at school. I understand this is not for a speech, although some of the points are still relevant. "1. Focus on sharing your vision, not emphasising the root problem. I heard one speaker say that the purpose of his speech was “to torment you [with this problem] as it torments me.” He focused relentlessly on the severity of a problem, or why everyone needed to take the problem seriously. There is a time and place for wake-up calls, but the most effective presentations usually offer a vision, or an inspiring solution to a vexing problem. People want to hear positive, life-affirming things. They want optimism, hope, belief. They want the art of possibility. Give people an idea or dream of how life COULD be, if only we took action, or changed a behaviour. Rally people around a common vision. 2. Use stories to inspire and support your message. I enjoy a revealing or startling statistic like anyone else, but a laundry list of statistics, without full context or stories, becomes meaningless and boring. You persuade people and change their behaviour by appealing to their heart, not their head. 3. Go after ONE idea, not the laundry list. It’s tempting to throw every possibility out there. But a laundry list of solutions or opportunities isn’t memorable. Repetition and reinforcement of an idea is critical, and this can’t happen if the topic gets changed every couple minutes. A big idea needs to be carefully framed and grounded, then expanded upon. Commentary can’t seem random; the audience needs a through-line, needs to feel like the message is building, gaining momentum, going somewhere. (I wonder: Maybe people are jumping around so often because they don’t trust any single idea to be powerful enough to carry a talk?) 4. Make it easy to spread your message. People can get so close to their subject matter (or their passion) that they lack the distance to convey an understandable message about it. It’s the classic forest-for-the-trees problem. Jargon or specialised terms have no place of any kind in a general-interest message, and the most inspiring speakers are the ones who can make their point compelling to anyone, and shareable by anyone. Stay out of the weeds, focus on the compelling takeaway idea you want people to be discussing long after you’ve left the stage. (How does each part of what you say reinforce that ONE idea?) 5. Enthusiasm and energy matter—A LOT. You can tell when people are bored by (or unsure of) what they’re saying. Their whole delivery and attitude changes to that of someone going through the motions, just trying to get to the end. It could be they’ve lost conviction or interest in what they’re saying—or maybe they’re just emptying out the purse of every intriguing idea they’ve ever had but haven’t really considered, so let’s rush through it! Deadly! 6. Don’t let the visuals override you, or become the higher entertainment. The speaker should always be the focus, and the visuals should support, illustrate or amplify a point the speaker is making. There shouldn’t be so many slides that none are worth showing for more than a few seconds, and there shouldn’t be any slides that give a different message than what the speaker is delivering. And of course visuals should not distract. Reinforcement is the name of the game. 7. Give your audience an immediate answer to “So what?” Every time we give our time to someone else, we immediately look for the reason we’re granting that time. Why does this matter? How is this relevant? How will this help me live better, do good, change the world, shift my thinking, modify my outlook? In part, this means: Don’t tell your personal story to a general audience unless it’s highly unusual. No one wants to hear about you, though certainly tell about vulnerabilities and mistakes; offer symbolic stories that teach. But always tie it back—tie it back to the vision, to the universal. Make it about something bigger than yourself."
Hehe, I try to help it as much as possible where I can. That link I sent was just for rough guidance and has helped me with my school life throughout the years.
