Stop Motion Videos
Stop motion videos are the digital ages' flipbooks. You take a series of photos of an object or subject moving slightly from one frame to the next and then animate. In doing so, the object appears to be moving. If you've ever seen the Lego movies, you've seen stop motion in action. There are TONS of stop motion examples on YouTube. I used the below video to introduce my students to the project: I had my students created a "pre-viz" for their stop motion video. They had the option of using Google Docs, StoryboardThat , or hand-drawing. From there, we used PhotoBooth to take the photographs and then imported those photos into iMovie. I did allow students to use their cell phones to take the pictures if they wanted, as it's very awkward to take photos using the Macbook. Keep in mind, iMovie only allows .1 frames per second, so it will require 100 photos to have a 10-second animation. Once the students had their photos taken,...