Stop motion comes to life!

We continued last week building our sets for our films. Ms Kim had a sore throat and couldn't speak much, but the students did really well listening and communicating non-verbally. Most of the class worked diligently to finish their props or to start building new sets, but one team (the city team) finished with theirs and began filming. Using clay figures and ingenuity, the girls wrote a storyline with a wedding and a reception that gets crashed by aliens! The groom got abducted... this week we hope to find out what happened to him, and also see what's happening over at our park, tent, church, and stage sets!

Introduction to Stop Motion

On Friday Mr. Justin and Ms. Kim introduced the students to the concept of a stop motion film. We talked about how movies are made of lots and lots of still pictures, kind of like a flip book. Then we broke into two teams and started a competition to see who could come up with the best stop motion film. Mr. Justin's team went outside and started making a stop motion film with their bodies. They had to stay still and just move a little bit at a time to make the movie come out right. It is a work in progress, but the work looks promising! Ms. Kim's group took a different approach. They decided to build the props for their movie first and film on a smaller scale. They decided the setting of their movie would be a city and a park, and the event would be a block party for some holiday. Ms. Kim voted for Earth Day, since we get to celebrate it together next week, but the kids were more in favor of Easter or Halloween. Since they didn't have any supplies, Ms. Kim led them on a field trip around the school stopping at all the recycling bins and looking for treasures. We found great stuff! There were enough smaller boxes to start making a car and a hotel and other buildings, and one large box to start a park. We built trees and a swing set out of pipe cleaners. It looks awesome and we can't wait to keep working on the project next week.