Stop Motion Animation Story Planner

The Story
You've watched some great stop motion animation videos, researched examples and tips, brainstormed ideas with your teammates and hopefully gotten excited for your projects! What's next? Moving to what is the most important factor for your animation !"##$%& ' (!)*Y! With a good story as your +hoo,-, you will be on your way towards creating a project you will enjoy yourselves and one that will greatly improve the feedbac, you get from others. Your story will be a very short story. "ach story should consist of three parts/ !he introduction 0prologue1, the main part, and the ending 0the epilogue1. $n essence, you should always have a beginning, a middle, and an end. 'dditionally, all good stories contain certain elements. 2eep in mind the 3 W's4 Who, What, Where, When and Why, and yes, sometimes 5ow helps as well. $t doesn6t matter what type of story you tell, whether it is humorous, dramatic or just informative 0such as a lesson learnt through life1. You should try to introduce the character0s1, give them a purpose, and come to a conclusion. 's long as you follow those steps 0and tell a good story1, you are sure to engage your audience and get them sending lin,s of your video to their friends.

Stop Motion Animation Story Planner

7omplete each category in the chart below. 8e sure to complete the chart with detail and and enough information that the reader gains a rough understanding of what your animation is going to loo, li,e. %ames/ 'nnie, *osie, Mic,ey :;<=<=>:; 'udience Who will view your animation? !he students, teachers, probably the internet surfers if we posted online. 7haracter 9escription !here will be 3 cars racing. (etting 9escription !he setting is the race trac,, which is made from paper or we'll use the roads to film. 8loc,/ ' 9ate/

5ow the (tory (tarts !he story starts with a red light then turned to green. $t signals the beginning of the race.

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"nding !he world most famous car give a cup to car number = and then the scene fade out.

All the racers passed the start line ?nfortunately, in the second and make the first turn. Car number turn, car ; and : crashed as 3 is taking the lead. they turn, causing both racers to be seriously injured and removed from the race.

$n the last lap, the remaining cars race for the cup and the championship title. !he car number = wins by doing a drift at the last turn and ta,e the lead.