Make a stop motion film

Make a Stop Motion film

One of our favourite true stories about Tower Bridge is the one when a bus jumped over an opening Tower Bridge in 1952.

This event happened so long ago we do not have any film footage of it. So, help us to recreate the daring feat using stop motion.

Who is this for?

Minimum number of people: 1

Equipment needed:

Smart phone or ipad
Colouring pens
Paper
Scissors.
You could also use the Tower Bridge picture from our Make a Moving Tower Bridge activity below if you have a printer:

Download the free Stop Motion Studio app onto your smart phone or tablet.
Open the app and select New Movie.
Set up your phone or tablet so that you can take pictures without holding it. Perhaps you have a stand or you can prop it up with a book?
Place something small (like a pencil) in front of the camera, take a picture by pressing the red button.
Move the pencil a little bit to the right, then take another photo. Move the pencil a bit more to the right then take another photo. Keep doing this until the pencil moves out the range of the camera.
Press play! (the triangle either above or below the red photo taking button). You have made a little film of the pencil moving!
You can save the final film to your phone / tablet to share with your friends and family. In the main menu, select the film you want to download then export movie in the upload menu.