Tutoial - How To Make a magic lantern

First, get all the necessary materials, these include: - a medium sized box - projector paper - sticky tape - scissors - pens - a light source (lamp) Next, cut a hole In the box for your lens to go through (picture) You can make a lens by rolling up paper (picture). The lens will be used for the light source to travel through and thus projecting the imagine on to the source. The animation will be drawn on OHP paper so that the light source travels through it and on to the white board. There was some debate among the group as to weather the used the light source direct from the lamp, or weather to have the lamp outside the box and being reflected through the lens via a mirror. We also started using card in order to draw the animations on, however it soon became apparent that this material was too think to have to light travel through, so we changed to tracing paper, which was also too thick, and it quickly became apparent that OHP paper would be the most suitable. It is important to seal the box so that no other light can get into the box, apart from your source. In order to get the most out of our light source, we rolled up card to go directly from the light source into the lens. It is important to remember to keep to a note of continuity when drawing your slides (picture). We have made a cut in our lens in order to put the slides through (picture).