Storyboard for our animation

Before beginning to make a start on the set and characters of the animation we identified a structured story line to ensure that everything we would create and each frame we would take would all be relevant and related to the scientific concept that we were trying to get across and more so to prevent us going slightly off track of our idea.



The storyboard clearly shows that the aim of our stop motion animation was to demonstrate a step by step breakdown of the scientific concepts that occur in the life of a flower everyday. Through creating the storyboard we found the name of our animation which was going to be 'Life of a Flower' under the assumption that our original idea, supported by the use of this story board, would all go to plan and would work out the way we wanted it to. Our aim was to highlight factors that contribute to the life and growth of flowers such as sunlight, water, polan from bees and so on (See storyboard above for full breakdown).

Design Process for our Stop Motion Animation Project

When me, Rhiannon and Stacey first heard of the project and what we had to do we were all petrified because none of us felt that we were particularly creative enough to do such a thing and none of us had done anything of the sort before. Trying to think of ideas initially was really difficult because as you can imagine there are thousands of different messages you could portray through the use of stop motion animation and many different ways of doing so. However, on the first day of designing the animation I was unable to attend uni therefore Rhi and Stace carried on without me but continuted to text me and keep me in the loop all day about ideas and we shared suggestions on different ideas and little things to do. We finally agreed on creating a stop motion animation using clay and our story was to be about the life of a flower and how it grows and so on - something scientific and educational for children to learn in a fun way. Rhi got on and started to make the set and stace started creating our little clay characters which were flowers, seeds, the sun moon and so on. Here is a picture of them getting stuck in below :D:D.