Stop Motion Culture Producers

What is Stop Motion? A kind of animation using photographs Still pictures are pieced together and flipped through rapidly to give the illusion of a movement or time passing, creating a movie The object is moved in small increments for each photographed frame, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence Characters and objects can be made of a variety of movable materials across backgrounds and sets or stages Here is an ad for iMotion…the app we’ll be using!

Vocabulary iMotion – the app we will use to shoot our movies Frame – a single photograph Frames per second – how many photographs, when grouped with the rest of the photos, are seen in a second More frames per second = faster Less frames per second = slower Ghost image – a faint image of the picture you just took will appear in iMotion so that you may line up your new photo so that your character or set has moved slightly from the image before…what is seen as the ghost image

Steps in Project Individual story brainstorm Group story brainstorm Story and idea Propose to Ms. Boulet Build sets and props (This includes a design for a tripod.) Shoot movie Finalize and Export Share Fill out Rubric

From Culture Consumer to Culture Producer Inquiry: How do you create a 30 second to 1 minute stop motion animation that shows you are paying attention? What is worth paying attention to; politics, climate, equality, gender, language, social status, social media, grades, friends? What are you interested in? How local is your focus; this class, this school, your neighbourhood, your city, your province, country, global? Is there anything that has upset or caused you to take action this year? How can you distill an idea into a short, short time frame?

Creating Your Movie The simpler the idea the better You will be deciding how to communicate an idea about something that matters to you/your group. Friendship, status, sports, politics, climate, winning…… Consider materials that can be found in the art room for your set and props – you are welcome to bring items from home, but their safety isn’t necessarily guaranteed :/ Think of a small action sequence An adventure tale Re-telling or re-create a familiar story Make a “how-to” A timelapse

Jobs to do: You will all take part in drafting the story, and building sets and characters On the shooting day(s) you will each perform all of the rolls within this process: Photographer Mover Storyteller/timekeeper

Helpful Hints You must stay on track with the daily schedule and goals! Keep your story short but interesting Quality made sets and backgrounds = better movie Smaller movements and more frames = better movie, less choppy (at least 50 frames – 300-500 = great movie) What should you do if you don’t get along?