After 12 weeks of production, we are so excited to share with you the 18 stop motion animation films created by students under the tuteledge of Magic Box Productions' PS 8 resident filmmaker extraordinaire - Danilo Randjic-Coleman (right). The films were invented by students in five classes from 2nd to 5th grades including those in classes taught by assisting teachers and staff: Ms. Klien, Ms. Fleming, Mrs. Garcia and Ms. Yanni; Ms. Gonzalez, Ms. Rodriguez, Ms. Eager, Ms. Estrella, Ms. Villanueva, and Ms. Bogolubov. Special thanks to Mr. Saxton for technical support and to Mrs. Maldonado for administrative and promotional support, and to the Parent Association which is offering snacks to parents following the film premiere. Thanks goes out to our fabulous administrators, Principal, Claudia Tahiraj-sadrija and Assistant Principals Mr. Dipaola and Mr. Morales who supported this historical Filmmaking Arts Residency.  

Note Post-Event - You can see all the films at the following links:

Vimeo

 https://vimeo.com/1172264483?fl=tl&fe=ec

Google https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pRrvCz9a0qmHZAWZ8b2_92e_wCcMcn6A

Burrowing Animals

Burrowing animals curl up for sleep under a blanket of snow in this 1st grade lesson focusing on the art concepts of space, texture, and unity. First, students learned about a variety of creatures that burrow underground and they practiced drawing some of them with a black oil pastel. Then students selected their favorite burrowing animal, and drew it sleeping on brown construction paper textured with construction paper crayons to look like fur. Students also learned to create two spaces - a black oil pastel, dirt-dotted and white tempera painted burrow below the ground, and a soft white snow area above the borrow. Black leaf-less winter bushes were added along with white plant roots using oil pastels. Winter berries created with red tempera paint were dotted onto the bushes with cotton tips creating a sense of uity for this adorable composition.

Under and Over

Third graders just began a layered collage lesson inspired by the book Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner and illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal. The lesson is also inspired by the work of the great Eric Carle who authored and illustrated with painted papers, 49 children's picture books. The project has just the right amount of challenge for third graders who painted a landscape so that it has a sense of space (background, midground and foreground). It also features a variety of forest trees made from painted papers. Next month students will add forest animals also created from a myriad of painted papers and compose them into their wintery scene.