Animation Worksheet: Stop Motion

Animation and design lesson 5: Stop-motion animation · Set 545 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Move, snap, repeat): Steps: build the set and models → fix the camera → take one photo → move the model a little → repeat → play the photos fast. Photos = seconds × photos per second; seconds = photos ÷ photos per second. Still camera, steady lamp light, tiny moves, hands out of shot.

1. 1.True or false: “keep hands out of shots” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧸 Why can light from a window spoil a stop-motion film? (a) it stops the camera (b) the light keeps changing (c) windows are noisy (d) it turns photos round
3. 3.🧸 In stop-motion, how is movement made? (a) one long video (b) photos of small moves (c) speeding up a song (d) drawing on glass
4. 4.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “repeat photo and move” or “play the photos fast”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) play the photos fast
5. 5.🧸 A clay car must move 33 cm in 11 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
6. 6.🧸 Which of these is often used for stop-motion models? (a) ice cream (b) smoke (c) modelling clay (d) soap bubbles
7. 7.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “keep hands out of shots”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
8. 8.🧸 A clay car must move 36 cm in 9 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
9. 9.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 20 seconds?
10. 10.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “fix the camera in place” or “move the model a little”? (a) fix the camera in place (b) move the model a little
11. 11.🧸 Why must the camera stay perfectly still? (a) to save battery (b) so photos are blurry (c) to make it louder (d) so the set does not jump
12. 12.🧸 A clay car must move 27 cm in 9 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
13. 13.True or false: “tape the set down” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which is the LAST step? (a) build the set and models (b) move the model a little (c) play the photos fast (d) fix the camera in place
15. 15.True or false: “move in tiny steps” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧸 You took 240 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 12 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
17. 17.🧸 Moving a model in very tiny steps makes the film … (a) slower and smoother (b) louder (c) shorter (d) faster and jumpier
18. 18.🧸 You took 140 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 10 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
19. 19.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “switch lamps mid-scene”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
20. 20.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 14 seconds?
21. 21.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “build the set and models”? (a) play the photos fast (b) fix the camera in place (c) move the model a little (d) take one photo
22. 22.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “repeat photo and move” or “build the set and models”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) build the set and models
23. 23.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 18 seconds?
24. 24.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which is the FIRST step? (a) take one photo (b) repeat photo and move (c) build the set and models (d) fix the camera in place
25. 25.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 2 seconds?
26. 26.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “tape the set down”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
27. 27.True or false: “move the camera often” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “fix the camera in place” or “repeat photo and move”? (a) fix the camera in place (b) repeat photo and move
29. 29.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “make big jumps each move”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
30. 30.🧸 You took 120 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 12 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
31. 31.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “repeat photo and move”? (a) take one photo (b) fix the camera in place (c) move the model a little (d) play the photos fast
32. 32.True or false: “shoot by a sunny window” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧸 A clay car must move 7 cm in 7 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
34. 34.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 10 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 66 photos take?
35. 35.🧸 A clay car must move 20 cm in 10 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
36. 36.True or false: “use a stand or tripod” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “play the photos fast” or “build the set and models”? (a) play the photos fast (b) build the set and models
38. 38.🧸 You took 24 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 12 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
39. 39.True or false: “move the camera often” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 20 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 60 photos take?

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