Adobe Flash: Stop Motion Film

Post date: Dec 4, 2017 5:18:51 AM

Step1: Cloze Listening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oelBtZHkL4c

Reading closely means reading for meaning and understanding. Follow these 8 steps to perform your own close reading. To begin, read your passage slowly. To begin, read your passage slowly.

Task 1: Identify any vocabulary you are unfamiliar with and look up the definition. Double check that the definition makes sense in the context of the text. Place in the first section of the email.

Task 2: Language Choice - identify any language that attracts your attention for any reason. Why do you find it interesting? Jot down your reasons in the second section of the email

Task 3: Verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. Identify the ones you find in the passage. What do you notice? Are there any patterns? Comment on your findings in the email.

Task 4: Predictions What might happen next? Why? Email.

Task 5: Opinions and reflections - what do you think of the story/narrators/characters? Email

Task 6: Connections does the task remind you about your own experiences? Or other books and films? What are the similarities? email.

Task 7: Questions - note them, and remember there is no such thing as a stupid question. Try to list more open questions than closed questions in your email.

Task 8: What key themes from the video do you think are important to know? email.

And remember it is one email, not eight.

Step2: Plan and Research

As with any video creation, students should first create a storyboard to sketch out their ideas for the animation video they are going to create. This should be followed by a written script including the outline of the action/characters. The next step would be to determine what medium they are going to use for the objects in the video– will it involve real people, clay figures, Legos, classroom supplies, or something else? All of the assets should be gathered and/or created before the shooting of the animation video begins.

The actual process of creating the stop motion animation video is simple– students put a camera on a tripod, create a “stage”, put the item(s) to be animated on the stage, and take the first photo. Then, they move something on one of the objects on the stage, take the next photo, and keep repeating this process until the story/video/demonstration is complete. (One rule of thumb is for students to take 10 different images for each second of video they want to create.) Once the photos are taken, they are moved into a video editing piece of software like Flash

https://www.nfb.ca/playlists/stopmostudio/

1. Power Point Presentation: You can download the PowerPoint presentation that I use to introduce the lesson by clicking the image below. It contains a brief overview of stop-motion animation, key vocabulary and more!
2. Packet: Here is a packet that includes worksheets, storyboard tools, and rubrics.
3. Stop-Motion Animation Examples: Below is a list of my favorite stop-motion examples to show my class. As always, preview them yourself to determine if they are appropriate for your students. Keep an eye on YouTube’s sidebars as well.
   • Sesame Street: OK GO – Three Primary Colors
   • The Robot and the Butterfly by Mr. Jones Art
   • Stand Up Tall by Mr. Jones Art
   • Frictions by Burayan
   • Western Spaghetti by PES
   • Game Over by PES
   • Fresh Guacamole by PES
   • Creativity by Tiny Circus (anything Tiny Circus does is pretty awesome!)
   • Elephant Trap by Tiny Circus
   • The Art Classroom by Tiny Circus

Step3: Film and Edit