Stop Motion.

Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object that appears to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning.

Stop motion animation has a long history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic. The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J.stuart Blackton for Vitagraph's The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. 

In the 1960s and 1970s, independent clay animator Eliot Nours Jr. refined the technique of "free-form" clay animation with his Oscar-nominated 1965 film Clay (or the Origin of Species). Noyes also used stop motion to animate sand lying on glass for his musical animated film Sandman (1975).

In the 1970s and 1980s, Industrial Light & Magic often used stop motion model animation for films such as the original Star Wars trilogy: the chess sequence in Star Wars, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the AT-ST walkers in Return of the Jedi were all stop motion animation, some of it using the Go films. The many shots including the ghosts in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the first two feature films in the RoboCop series use Phil Tippett's ho motion version of stop motion.

Toward the end of the 90's, Will Vinton launched the first prime-time stop motion television series called The PJs,with creator Eddie Murphy.

In this lesson we stared by looking at the history of stop motion animation. 

We then individually created our own story board to create our own stop motion picture. Mine was a boat that got hit by a wave. As we worked in pairs, we used Freya's idea of a girl waving. As we stared to film this we developed on the idea of creating a conversation and making a comical video.