Our Animation Story

Our focus statement tells our story because that's what the story is about. Our focus statement is "Cyberbullying Effects Tu" which was actually a true story. Cyberbullying is a big problem now because teens have more freedom and they have a large vocabulary of hateful words they probably were told before. Since cyberbullying is such a large problem we decided to let people know about it by telling a story that happened to one of our teammates.

Since our focus statement was "Cyberbullying Effects Tu" so the lesson was how the action of cyberbullying can lead to sometimes serious depression. We decided on the cyberbullying topic because many teens are being called names, and told mean things by anonymous internet users. Most parents and adults can't see what these people are doing online so we thought this would be a good topic. Were showing this to people through an animation, actually many different forms of animation. We used the programs, stykz and photoshop to animate. Next, we did a stop motion, and a whiteboard, then we put it all together using iMovie.

I think the worst part of the animation was deciding who does what. For example, Tyler and I were fighting over who does the storyboard, or who animates in stykz or who animates in photoshop. The best part was helping filming. I really enjoy using the cameras because I don't have a camera like the ones we have in school and it's a really great opportunity to use the canons. My second favorite part was just working with my team. Dylan is a really strong animator, Tessa is great at editing, Tu is an amazing actor and Tyler is good at writing the storyboard.