Stop+Motion+Testing

These videos are very elementary as I am new to the stop motion process and all that comes a long with loading it to youtube and then this site.


 * 3 Second Paperclip:** This is my very first attempt at creating stop motion photography. The equipment used: Sony Cybershot digital camera and imovie on an Apple computer.

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Conclusion from 3 Second Paperclip: Must use tripod!!! I was aware of this, but thought I'd give it a go. Imovie allows you to control the timing of each frame, however it will only allow you to go down to .3 per second.


 * Exercise 1: Moving Coin** - I am reading a book titled __Stop Motion Craft Skills for Model Animation__. Chapter 3 assists in setting up exercises which will ease you in to the stop motion process. "Moving Coin" is an exercise in which I drew 19 circles and then lead a coin a long the evenly spaced path.

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Conclusion from Exercise 1: Although I used a tripod, the picture was still rigid showing the table behind the paper at some times. Also, using imovie you must crop each image to "fit" the screen... it's automatic setting is Ken Burn effect.


 * Exercise 1/ Part 2: Accelerating Coin** Chapter 3 exercise.

media type="youtube" key="bVfBhvSEnss" height="295" width="480" Conclusion from Exercise 1/Part 2: This was my first attempt at using istop motion. Much better than taking pictures with a camera and loading them onto a computer.


 * Chapter 3: Bouncing Ball** Chapter 3 exercise.

media type="youtube" key="0NBACBIkhdY" height="295" width="480" Conclusion from Bouncing Ball: Trying to show gravity and the illusion of weight with something that is flat and not moving can be difficult. This was a great exercise to help with the spacing of each frame. When something hits the groun I also see that I need to work with the tripod to get a better angle.

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 * Seashells- Keeping it Simple:** Chapter 4 describes how to "keep it simple." This chapter gets into some professional aspects such as having an editor to go over your story; however 4 Basic Steps are covered: 1. Idea/Script 2.Planning your shots 3.Storyboard 4.Editing Art teachers: Please don't criticize on the seashell man body proportions!

media type="youtube" key="FxqEsQ5FHPc" height="295" width="480" Conclusion from Clementine: This was the first time I was able to use sound. I took the shots in istop motion and then imported them to imovie (imovie allowed the movie to come in as is; which didn't cause the ken burns effect to turn on). I added sound through garage band- don't understand how to cut and control the music so I just pasted it over from garage band. Hopefully next time I will have this figured out.
 * Clementine- Keeping it simple**:

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 * Happy New Year Everyone!** - With this video; I was able to add sound from Garage Band. I learned how to cut out parts of the music... next I would like to learn how to overlay different segments of sound.

The kiln can load and unload itself! media type="youtube" key="uTt_nxhraNY" height="295" width="480" I'm beginning to see stop motion possibilities more and more throughout a typical day.

I am working with a student from the high school. She is enrolled in a video production course where she was asked to create a 30 second commercial. The commercial needs to promote a product. Her product of choice is the i pod. The idea is that the i pod can go anywhere. Rather than doing traditional filming, she wants the i pod to become animated... so that's what we are doing! I'll update more once we put it online.
 * Current Project:**


 * Introduction to 4th grade class:** This week, the 4th grade students were introduced to art in motion. The persistence of vision was taught by introducing a toy from the colonial time period called a thaumatrope. The students each created a thaumatrope and then stop motion photography was discussed. The students were then able to come up to the computer/camera two at a time. One student would work the camera, while the other move the object. Here is the huge success that is only 3 seconds long! media type="youtube" key="yI0bnKadPGo" height="295" width="480"

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