Jurassic Back to The Future World Movie - Our First Lego Stop Motion Movie

Hunter, Sawyer, and I all share a love of Lego and every overpriced set of construction blocks that the company produces. Hunter and Sawyer have recently gotten into watching a variety of YouTube videos showcasing their favorite toys and games that they like to play. This of course led to Hunter discovering several YouTube channels that showcase Lego building as well as people utilizing Legos to create stop motion videos. After watching a few of these great videos we were inspired to try our hand at creating a little video of our own. Pair all of this with the boys’ newfound love of Jurassic World, and we easily determined the storyline for our Lego stop motion movie.

Let me preface all of this by saying this was our first attempt at doing anything like this, so it is by no means polished perfection. I will also say that there wasn’t really any storyboarding to this endeavor either, so the movie lacks a little continuity. All of that said, Hunter and I had a ton of fun making the video. We learned a great deal along the way about creating sets, lighting, and photography.

We accomplished this by creating and setting up our sets and learned through the process that lighting was critical. You can see as the video goes along we do a little better job of lighting. We also learned how important set design and stability are to ensure that the set doesn’t move in places where you don’t want it to. We used my camera on the interval timer set at 20 seconds to give us enough time to move the necessary lego pieces between each photograph.

Once we completed photographing each scene, we dropped the photos into iMovie, where we organized the timeline, adjusted image duration as well as some of the zooming on certain shots. We worked together to edit the video and then Hunter provided the voiceover. We found a fun website that had sound effects that we used to help enhance our storytelling.

It was fascinating watching Hunter’s mind work as he tried to think through the character movements in each scene. He was always trying to come up with funny situations to put the characters in, even if that meant adding pieces to a static scene so they would have something to trip over (see the Delorian scene). Working on the dialogue for each scene was a riot as Hunter tried to come up with funny lines, sometimes utilizing the same voice for all the characters. We agreed that we will write down the dialogue for any future movies that we make.

We hope you enjoy the Lego Jurassic Back to the Future World Movie, our first of hopefully many fun video projects.