Drama Project (Part Two): Middle Earth Adventure

Drama Project: Stop Action Lego Hobbit Movie (Part One)

Yesterday and today, Gabe and John and I worked on a Drama project for this term. I decided to take the stop action Lego route inspired by this blog. After a bit of a struggle, we finally decided to do something Hobbit related, as the boys have been getting a bunch of Hobbit and LOTR Legos from their grandparents.

Yesterday, they built their characters, monsters, Hobbit house and mountain. Today, we got down to work seriously. I talked a bit about the parts of the plot diagram: introduction, problem, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion.

Then I divided a long strip of paper into six parts to match the different parts of the plot diagram.

Then we talked about what is going to happen in the movie, one section (scene) at a time. The boys illustrated each cell on the strip.

We constructed our set with a tarpaulin backdrop, set up our iPad camera at a good angle, and got to work filming each scene. We moved the character a little bit at a time, taking photos as we went.

Tomorrow, Gabe and I will work with iMovie to put the pictures together. Then we will overdub our dialogue and music. Phew!