Behind The Scenes: The Making of The Baby Bobble Heads Go To School

Today on Yahoo! news I saw a cool stop motion video called The Joy of Books and I showed it to Arowyn & Teagan. Teagan wanted to know how the books did that and I explained that they didn't use a video camera to do that but that it was a string of photographs put together to make a video. He thought it was very cool so I asked him if he wanted to see how it was done. He said "yes" so I jumped right in. We laid one of our blankets on the ground, set up our white board as a backdrop, grabbed some books to act as a tripod for my camera and plugged the remote switch into my camera and we started making his movie. I've never made a stop motion video before but we just figured it out as we went along and after showing him how it worked I let him and Arowyn lose with it and they ran with it. So for the first part of the video with Teagan in it is when I'm explaining to them how it works so I shot that part and the very ending where Teagan was in it again. But after I showed them the ropes the kids took over with Teagan drawing and moving the babies and Arowyn taking the photos. Although after his cinematographer went on strike due to him being "a big meanie" he had to take over shooting for his video as well. This turned out to not only be lesson in photography and making movies but Teagan also learned a valuable lesson in crew resource management.

 Teagan arranging his babies

Arowyn shooting the photo