Apr

9

Working with video

Filed Under Art, General 

Normally I’m not one to show off my students’ work to the greater world, but I’m going to make an exception. These three videos are not-bad applications of stop motion animations. While there’s some choppiness, some weird lighting, and other problems all three videos are not bad for a first try. The students (and me) are learning.

  1. Project One
  2. Project Two
  3. Project Three

I decided to post these on TeacherTube instead of YouTube because although TeacherTube seems a little bit clunkier at times, it also seems to get past more schools divisions’ web filters.

This project was also done on the cheap. Besides the computers (which the school already had), and Microsoft Movie Maker (already available if you’ve got Windows XP), we also used some really cheap webcams (found online at The Source),  and some free stop motion animation software.

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2 Responses to “Working with video”

  1. Kevin on April 9th, 2008 1:03 pm

    Hi
    I use the same software, etc, as you, and I am still learning, too. I did run a claymation camp last summer and do some claymation in the classroom with sixth graders. We set to begin some filming in the next couple of weeks, I hope.

    This was our summer camp site: http://masswp.org/claycamp/

    And this may (or may not) be useful — I mapped out the camp’s activities:
    http://dogtrax.googlepages.com/animationcampoverview

    Kevin

  2. Linus on April 10th, 2008 3:26 pm

    I love the claymation camp idea. I may steal it for use here. Maybe I can get our administration to let me do it on a PD day or something.

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