Guidelines for Project 1 – Motion
Project 1: Newton’s Laws of Motion Storyboarding
Basic Storyboarding according to Newton’s principles of motion
Required: Three, nine-frame storyboards on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Include written descriptions. Any non-digital, black and white drawing media may be used (pencil, black pen, black marker, etc.).
Due: In progress sketches and notes. Three, nine-frame storyboards.
Sir Isaac Newton: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, William Dawson & Sons, 1687 (as know as Newton’s Laws of Motion).
1. Objects at rest will stay at rest and objects in motion will stay in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
2. Force is equal to mass times acceleration
3. For every action there is always an opposite and equal reaction.
Step 1: Find Motion. Find three examples of anything in motion that demonstrates at least one of Newton’s three laws of motion. Motion must be uninitiated by the student. Students should look for motion and not create motion. For example, watching a ball being kicked back and forth instead of asking two people to kick a ball back and forth is an uninitiated motion. Studying the effects on curtains blowing in a window instead of twirling around fabric by hand is an uninitiated motion. The purpose for uninitiated motion is to challenge students to see motion in things that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Step 2: Observe, Sketch, and Write about Motion. After finding motion that represents Newton’s laws of motion, begin by describing the motion with notes and sketching real time drawings – drawings done on site that record the motion as it takes place. Students should produce a series of sequential drawings that tell the story clearly. After enough information about the motion has been recorded, students may redraw the event in nine frames that will make up the final story board. Final frames must be drawn with either pencil, black pen/marker, black ink, or black and white paint. No color or digital means will be used.
Step 3: Edit Frames. After you have made a sequence of drawings that tell the story, start editing the frames to exactly nine frames. Storyboards should tell the story of the motion in a logical, sequential order – in other words, the events of the story should come right after each other in the order the story is being told. Students should look critically at how the sequence will begin, how the motion is conveyed, and how the story ends – all of which should be shown clearly in the final storyboard frames.
Step 4: Transfer Final Frames to Storyboard. Once each story is determined and communicates the motion in nine frames, transfer the drawings to the final template. The may be done by redrawing, photocopying, or tracing the selected frames. Add a brief, hand written paragraph consisting of two or three sentences describing the motion for each storyboard below the frames.
Materials Needed
Sketchbooks, drawing paper, journal – whatever is comfortable for the students to sketch and take notes.
Three copies of the provided storyboard template. Black and white, non-digital media – pencil, black pen/marker, black ink, or black and white paint. No color or digital means will be used.
Grading out of 100
Concept: 60%. Student was able to visualize an appropriate, clear, well organized, and memorable solution to the given problem.
Presentation / Craft: 30%. Level of finish achieved in final presenation.
Class Participation: 10% Ability to articulate thoughts and ideas in a group setting and with the instructor about the project, in a professional and respectful manner that fosters and creates a learning environment.
Progress Critique: Monday September 8
