Photo moment

How does the exhibit work?

Lie down on the floor. After a few moments, a camera will take a picture of you (you'll see a flash of light). After a few seconds, another flash of light and a photo follow. This way, the camera takes 13 pictures. These are placed in quick succession in a video. You can see that on the other screen.

Scan the QR code to download the video on your mobile phone.

What is the science behind it?

Make a video of yourself using stop motion. Stop motion is a film technique almost as old as filming itself. You take a picture, move a little bit and take another picture. You keep doing this.

Do you put the images in quick succession? Then it seems like you're doing the craziest moves. That's because your brain makes the images flow together, so it appears a smooth movement. All the moving images you see on a screen are made that way.

You can also make a stop-motion video with objects. Test it at the Stop Motion Studio in our ON/OFF zone.

Stop motion with clay

Do you know ‘Chicken Run’? This popular film starring chickens is made with malleable clay figures that are moved a tiny bit each time. This form of stop motion is called claymation. For every sound a chicken makes, a different beak was put on the figure.

The children's series ‘Shaun the sheep’, about a clever sheep who has all kinds of adventures on the farm, is also claymation.