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Media Project 2: Stop Motion Goodbyes

July 20th, 2013 · 1 Comment

Hello! Here is the link to our stop motion video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c-Ts-370JU

Link to our written component:

stop motion movie write up

 

As well for anyone wondering, the white board we used was 9×7″ from Staples!

-Mary Zolkiewski and Katherine Spilsted

Tags: Media Project II

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  • TMD // Jul 23rd 2013 at 7:22 am

    Thanks, Mary and Katherine, for this creative and engaging stop animation. This is an excellent example of how such a project might be completed with very little in the way of resources: a small, inexpensive white board, some dry markers, and a camera. Although I suggested a tripod, Ernesto was quite right in observing that it is easy to improvise a tripod — for example, by taping a camera to a water bottle. So this project is very easy to put into action in a classroom, providing students have access to video editing software.

    If you are interested in additional resources for teaching stop animation, there are some here posted by Garry Hoban, a professor in Australia: http://slowmation.com/ . His site suggests an approach using an earlier version of Quick Time Pro, which allowed one to open an image sequence and edit that sequence. (My one reservation about Hoban’s site is that I find the notion proposed on the site that Hoban “created” Slowmation a bit troublesome. Perhaps Hoban created the site and the pedagogical materials; stop animation at various frame rates — from slow to fast — has of course been around for a long time.)

    Your written materials give a good sense of the process and affordances of the project. I like the fact that you ask students to self-evaluate. Perhaps you might consider changing all of the statements in that rubric to first person, though, for consistency and to ensure students continue to think of evaluation of their own effort rather than evaluation of their project.

    An aside: if the song you selected to accompany your video is copyright protected, then you may find the video will be removed from YouTube. YouTube has a “Content ID” application that checks uploads against copyrighted material. If they find a match, they’ll take the video down. So do advise your students to search for music in Creative Commons. Here’s YouTube’s recent copyright video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1Jn4Q0j6E .

    Thanks again for your efforts in completing this project — the video is wonderful and your written materials are very helpful.

    Best regards,

    Teresa

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