Stop Motion Animation – Health, Safety & E-Safety

I was asked to make a series of videos relating to Health, Safety and E-Safety. I’m not really a filmographer, but I couldn’t get the idea of making stop motion animation out of my head.

I grew up with Morph, the animated plastecine character. I was fascinated how this was made. So, I drew inspriation from this and started to make some storyboards. I then grabbed the iPad with an app called Stop Motion Studio.

The Left Laptop

“The Left Laptop” was the first one I shot. I thought that this could be something that could be made quite easily.

However, the next video, “The Yellow Bins” involved a lot more work. There were lots of shots that were rejected. In fact, I virtually reshot the whole sequence.

The Yellow Bins

I was then trying to make a video about running in the corridors. However, this was proving to be much more challenging, to the point where I decided to leave it for another day.

However, I did end up shooting some pictures of the Yellow Wet Floor signs. I had enough to put together another video.

The Wet Floor

I took a week’s break from filming, as I was busy with “other stuff.”

I had planned to make a video about walking safely up and down the stairs. However, the idea of the bag on the floor came to me, so I went with that.

Bag on the Floor

I wanted to make a series of 6, before I made changes to the style of the videos. One thing I see too often, is students raising the monitors so high, that they are looking up at the screen. I wanted to make a video about this.

The Monitor That Was Raised Too High