Last class you finished taking photos on Photobooth and you filmed your first short stop-motion and put it together in iMovie. Today you will work in groups of 3 and you will film a stop-motion video in-class. You will be restricted to the classroom so therefore you must set the white balance in your cameras accordingly, and stay consistent. There will be different stations set-up in the room, but you will be working on a table top for this animation. Your video should include at least 100-150 shots. When you are finished, you will upload your photos to all group members computers (make sure that you save them in a folder on your desktop-NOT in iPhoto) and you must save them in aristotle if you are on the guest account.
I will put you into groups today, and you must come up with an idea BEFORE beginning to film. Once I have approved your idea, and you may begin.
Friday, 31 January 2014
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
January 28th
Hello everyone and welcome back!
At the beginning of class I would like you to finish up any outstanding photoshop work that you have, and please upload it to your blog. Please upload the work to your blog as a jpeg or png file, and I will take your original PSD file for the veggie tales character. Please place it on your desk top with your name in the file so that I can collect it on my USB.
Part 1:
Today we will be starting a new module: stop-motion animation! This is a very fun module and will go quite quickly. We will learn about how to create stop-motion videos, what elements make a stop-motion video successful, and we will create our own stop-motion videos.
When you are finished, I'd like you to watch the following 3 short stop-motion videos. Then answer the following on your blog. Before doing this, I'll need a volunteer to go to the library to get an appropriate amount of headsets from Helmi. If you have never used one of the school headsets, after plugging it into the usb you must go to system preferences > sound> output you must choose the Microsoft life chat :
Post-it Notes by Deadline
Target Commercial
Strawberry Swing by Coldplay
1. Which video was your favourite? Why? Explain in at least 3 sentences.
2. What was a common successful element in all of the videos?
3. What other films have you seen that are stop-motion (or clay-mation). Have you heard of Tim Burtons? If you haven't you should know who he is....he is kind of a big deal, especially in the realm of stop motion animation. Look him up on wikipedia.
Part 2:
The video below is a behind the scenes look at the creation of the 2009 film, "Fantastic Mr. Fox". This video will give you an idea of the labour intense but fascinating world of stop-motion animation film. Can you think of any other films that you have seen that are stop-motion animation?
*Make sure that you blow the video up to full screen to watch.
Fantastic Mr. Fox Behind the Scenes
After you have watched this video, I will give you a demonstration on making a stop-motion video using iMovie. At the end of class, you will make your own mini-clip of a stop-motion animation video using photobooth and an inanimate object.
At the beginning of class I would like you to finish up any outstanding photoshop work that you have, and please upload it to your blog. Please upload the work to your blog as a jpeg or png file, and I will take your original PSD file for the veggie tales character. Please place it on your desk top with your name in the file so that I can collect it on my USB.
Part 1:
Today we will be starting a new module: stop-motion animation! This is a very fun module and will go quite quickly. We will learn about how to create stop-motion videos, what elements make a stop-motion video successful, and we will create our own stop-motion videos.
When you are finished, I'd like you to watch the following 3 short stop-motion videos. Then answer the following on your blog. Before doing this, I'll need a volunteer to go to the library to get an appropriate amount of headsets from Helmi. If you have never used one of the school headsets, after plugging it into the usb you must go to system preferences > sound> output you must choose the Microsoft life chat :
Post-it Notes by Deadline
Target Commercial
Strawberry Swing by Coldplay
1. Which video was your favourite? Why? Explain in at least 3 sentences.
2. What was a common successful element in all of the videos?
3. What other films have you seen that are stop-motion (or clay-mation). Have you heard of Tim Burtons? If you haven't you should know who he is....he is kind of a big deal, especially in the realm of stop motion animation. Look him up on wikipedia.
Part 2:
The video below is a behind the scenes look at the creation of the 2009 film, "Fantastic Mr. Fox". This video will give you an idea of the labour intense but fascinating world of stop-motion animation film. Can you think of any other films that you have seen that are stop-motion animation?
*Make sure that you blow the video up to full screen to watch.
Fantastic Mr. Fox Behind the Scenes
After you have watched this video, I will give you a demonstration on making a stop-motion video using iMovie. At the end of class, you will make your own mini-clip of a stop-motion animation video using photobooth and an inanimate object.
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
January 14th
Hello photoshop people!
What I would like you to do first off is to check your school gmail. I have shared your final project for photoshop with you there. While I explain the final project to the photography group, you will read this over and you can begin assignmnent 1 as it is very similar to your animal hybrid assignment. You will have 2 days to finish all 3 projects so please plan your time wisely. There will be no extensions. Once I am done with the photography group, I will teach you how to do assignment #3.
What I would like you to do first off is to check your school gmail. I have shared your final project for photoshop with you there. While I explain the final project to the photography group, you will read this over and you can begin assignmnent 1 as it is very similar to your animal hybrid assignment. You will have 2 days to finish all 3 projects so please plan your time wisely. There will be no extensions. Once I am done with the photography group, I will teach you how to do assignment #3.
Thursday, 9 January 2014
January 10th
Happy Friday!
Today we are going to do a mini-assignment that will be due at the end of class today.
Bueller's Day Off!
Your parents are away on vacation for the week and they decided that you were responsible enough to stay home alone for the week. You decided to "borrow" their car and you got in an accident and decided to hide the car in your garage until you can get it fixed. Your neighbour calls your parents on vacation and tells them they haven't noticed the car in the driveway. Your parents call and demand a recent photo of the car, and to make sure you're not lieing, they want you to be in the photo.
Take one of the photos and photoshop out the dents/scratchs. Use the clone tool, blur tool, dodge, burn, etc. Have someone in the class take a photo of you that you can add into the photo.
Today we are going to do a mini-assignment that will be due at the end of class today.
Bueller's Day Off!
Your parents are away on vacation for the week and they decided that you were responsible enough to stay home alone for the week. You decided to "borrow" their car and you got in an accident and decided to hide the car in your garage until you can get it fixed. Your neighbour calls your parents on vacation and tells them they haven't noticed the car in the driveway. Your parents call and demand a recent photo of the car, and to make sure you're not lieing, they want you to be in the photo.
Take one of the photos and photoshop out the dents/scratchs. Use the clone tool, blur tool, dodge, burn, etc. Have someone in the class take a photo of you that you can add into the photo.
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
January 9th
Hello and welcome back!
Today you will finish working on those animal hybrids that you started before the break. We only started them on the Thursday and as there were many people away that day, you should all have still be in progress. Please make them as realistic as possible, they will be due at the end of class.
Reminder:
3 different animals morphed into one
a separate background image
When you are done, export the file as a jpeg and upload it to your blog. Reminder-you need to SELECT the file type jpeg, not just write it into the save as box.
Today you will finish working on those animal hybrids that you started before the break. We only started them on the Thursday and as there were many people away that day, you should all have still be in progress. Please make them as realistic as possible, they will be due at the end of class.
Reminder:
3 different animals morphed into one
a separate background image
When you are done, export the file as a jpeg and upload it to your blog. Reminder-you need to SELECT the file type jpeg, not just write it into the save as box.
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