Claymation

Students in Art Club, offered to students in grades 6-12, and high school's Visual Art classes, will plan and produce claymation features to be aired across the school to students in every grade and every teacher during morning announcement time. The show would be shared with the school's PTO during a special meeting also. For this project, students would work together in groups to write a skit, design the set, create the character(s), and draw the scenery. They would work together to plan sounds, music, and/or speech. At the conclusion of the work I will enter all productions in the Spring Video Competition at Columbia State Community College. Winners from there are sent to Vanderbilt University for a larger-scale competition in June.
The objectives included in this project include; working with peers, writing a script, using new technology, creating a 2-dimentional or 3-dimentional set, creating characters and figures from clay, making the correct sounds for their characters and their actions, and adding music for the background. These objectives are cross-curricular and are encompassed in our Tennessee Stae Curriculum Standards for Art, Language Arts, Theater, Music, and Technology.This project will unify the students in various classes while providing an exciting, pain-free project that they will remember all their lives.
Art Club members in grades 6-12 will be the creators of the show, while K-12 will be the viewers. That will incorporate 100% of the school. We would have a movie night for parents and the community also.
The project will be assessed by the claymation films that are created. If we can get them to work then all the goals would have been met and our projects successful.