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including stop motion animation as school?
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My 12 yr old works on Stop motion animation with Legos almost everyday. I was thinking about including it in the CM organizer. Do you think it can count as school? Thanks!
Oh – you know I never thought of counting it towards school, but my 10yo works on it nearly every second of spare time he has as well. At the very least, I would think you could count it for art. Seems to me to a lot more involved than “art”, though. Just don’t know what I would lable it as!
You might have them acting out historical scenes specific to your timeperiod (building pyramids, bridges, wagon trails, Wall of China, etc) or doing a “narration” about a story they’ve read or been read. If they could show a flower blooming or the stages of a bird’s nest being built, that could count as nature study, especially if it is based on something they just saw on a hike or drew in their nature notebooks. Maybe an egg hatching? Just brainstorming. I have girls and haven’t had this interest yet, but surely it can be tweaked so that their efforts count as something and also to encourage their thinking in ways that they might not normally tend to do.
HTH!
I think it counts, even if they are just doing their own thing. (My son did a number of them, until his camera broke…. ) I know that Stop-Animation was (is?) a subject in training for some professions….
It could count as art, or creative storytelling, multimedia, technology, journalism, or even narration of a topic depending on what they do with it.
It’s when you take a million phots of something, and move it one tiny bit at a time, so when you put all the pictures together, it gives the allusion that it is moving. Like the old Davey and Goliath episodes or Gumby.
Here are a few that my son did. Some he did with legos, and one he did with him and his brother. http://ephesians521homeschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/finding-fun-with-stop-motion-animation.html
Laura – my boys do this all the time on my little camera – i did not know there was a way to get them on the computer – you say it is windows movie maker – is that on the internet somewhere or did you buy it?
Windows Movie Maker came with my computer. I just looked and it’s called “Windows Live Movie Maker” and it has a little film strip as the icon. I think it should already be on your computer if you have windows, but if not, I bet you can get it as a free download. Google it. I know they have other, more fancier programs, but the Movie Maker works for us. I haven’t showed my son how to do this yet, but you can add music or sound to the video, and use a combination of video and pictures, so your lego videos could have a soundtrack and dialogue. We do that when we make our vacation videos (with our vacation pictures and not legos obviously!). They come out like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsBR3CaLj0k
If your children really get into stop motion animation, you might want to see if you can find some software dedicated to making stop motion films. There are both paid and free ones out there. The advantage to using software is that it will stitch the photos together for you, and many programs will let you take the pictures from your computer with a webcam or connected still camera, which decreases inadvertant camera wiggle.
By the way, I had fun watching your son’s videos, Laura.bora. Reminds me of when I used to have fun doing stop motion.
Jordan – Do you know of any free programs out there? I’ve mostly seen people talk about the paid ones, and we just aren’t in a position to do that at the moment. He’s very artsy – all types, so I don’t imagine that he’ll be stopping making his movies anytime soon. Movie Maker is working fine for us now, but I was thinking down the road a bit as he improves.
I don’t know a lot about stop motion software for Windows, but this list on BrickFilms could be a good starting point. They also have a neat list of free stop motion apps for iPhone/iPad.
Laura, Those were great! I will show them to my son when he gets home. Here are some of his: http://sonicnerdyguyvideos.blogspot.com/ He uses window’s movie maker, too.
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