Stop Motion Films

The students will be learning about story boarding, directing, stage design and stop motion photography. The students will be exposed to silent films, commercials and claymation. The students will work in groups to create a story about a social theme that is relevant to their lives. Once the students have completed their story board they will begin designing the stage. For this project, the stage will be a drop cloth placed on the floor and all props and acting will be coordinated on the drop cloth. Then they will use foam board and modeling clay to build their stages. The students will rehearse. After the filming has been complete we will work with the computer classes to add sound and edit the images together to create the continuous short film.