1. Stop Motion
Culture Producers

2. 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!

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 – = great movie)
What should you do if you don’t get along?