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Teacher Education Models*Showcase Models H.E.L.P.Language Arts Video Case Studies
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Clay Animation
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Making of...
The Making of Clay Characters by Shelby First we made the bodies with pipe cleaners, aluminum foil, and clay. We bent the pipe cleaners to a shape like a body. Next we put aluminum foil around the pipe cleaners to make them wider. We learned that we needed to put lots of foil around the pipe cleaners so that so we don’t use too much clay. (Clay is expensive, and using too much clay makes the characters too heavy). Then we put clay on a Styrofoam ball for the head. The Styrofoam ball was small, and not very heavy. We put the Styrofoam ball on the top of the pipe cleaners. Then we put clay on the body of the character. We used a garlic press to make strings of clay for hair. Then we had to shape the nose and put little wiggly eyes on them. We had to make a mouth with red clay and we made clothes with colorful clay. We wanted to main characters to look really good. Some of the main characters are Cassie, Stacie, Christopher John, Little Man, Big Ma, Mamma, and Papa. We all had to work hard on our clay characters, and they turned out great!
The Making of the Scene by Nicholas We decorated our scenery for Chapter Five to look like a store because the main action for our chapter takes place in Barnett’s Mercantile. We drew food, clothes, and supplies so that everyone would know that our characters were shopping when they ran into trouble. For Chapter Six we needed to show two cars going over a bridge. We made the cars so that we could show Hammer driving in front of the Wallace car. Hammer should never have tried to trick the Wallaces into thinking he was Mr. Granger.
Animation by Dallas The first thing that you need to do when you animate is to have all of your props and scenes ready. It took us a while to get all of scenes ready because in the beginning we read only one chapter out of the two we had to do and then we had to go back. When we got that finished we got to film and that is the fun part! You wouldn’t believe how many pictures we took. Our scene only lasted about twenty-five seconds but we took about 125 pictures. Do you know why? It takes about 15 pictures for one second of action. I think filming was the best part because it was a little more challenging than drawing the scene. Every thing had to perfect. We could only move our clay people a little bit or it would look like they were hopping. Animating the scenes was really fun!
Brainstorming and Ideas by Catrina We started this part by storyboarding. For this part we divided a sheet of paper into sections. Then we drew pictures of what happened in the mercantile for Chapter Five and on the bridge for Chapter Six. We also wrote the main ideas of what happened. Each section stands for a different movement in the scene.
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