ABSTRACT
Slowmation (abbreviated from ‘slow animation’) is a simplified way for school or university students to make a 3–5-minute narrated stop-motion animation to explain a science concept. The process was created 10 years ago by one of the book authors, Garry Hoban, whilst looking for new ways for pre-service teachers to engage with and explain science concepts (Hoban, 2005). The animation process is simplified by using any form of model (e.g. paper, plastic, plasticine, real objects), that is usually laid flat on a table or the ground and then the creator makes small, manual movements whilst taking digital still images. The images are then uploaded into a free movie-making program (iMovie on a Mac or Windows Movie Maker on a PC) and played at two frames/second providing a slow-moving image that can be narrated, hence the name ‘slowmation’. Further details and free instructions on the making process are available at https://www.slowmation.com" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.slowmation.com and https://www.digiexplanations.com" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.digiexplanations.com. There are also several thousand examples available by searching YouTube using the term ‘slowmation’.
