Kevin’s Meandering Mind

30 05 2008

Capturing Claymation Activity

Posted by: dogtrax in Adventures in StopMotion Animation, Homepage, my classroom, tags: claymation

We spent a lot of time working on Claymation Movies yesterday and, with a couple of exceptions, the students were really focused. Much of the work was just capturing the raw video, which requires patience and teamwork and a vision of how the stories might unfold. The theme this year is Climate Change, and I am going about the movie making process a little different than in years past (I will reflect later).

But as I was helping the groups, I took a couple of pictures of them at work, and made this collage.

I love their little creatures!

Peace (in multicolored clay),
Kevin

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6 Responses to “Capturing Claymation Activity”

1.   Ken Allan Says:
   May 30th, 2008 at 7:45 am

   Kia Ora Kevin.

   Your students look engrossed in what they are doing. This is fascinating stuff – I’m sure it must give you a real buzz to work with the groups and also to look back on what they made. What’s more, you have a permanent record of their achievements, and they will have too.

   A cracker activity for group work no doubt. I am impressed.

   Ka kite

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2.   Tonya Witherspoon Says:
   May 30th, 2008 at 10:10 am

   Great photos – I look forward to the movies and your description of how you presented the lesson differently this year.

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3.   ps233techteacher Says:
   May 30th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

   I’d love to see your clay animation productions when they’re done. Will you be posting them online? My fourth graders did clay animations last year — this year we just worked on 2-D animations, but had a blast! You can see our stuff on my blog: ps233techteacher.edublogs.org either linked to the posts for each movie, or on the voicethread links in the blogroll.

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4.   dogtrax Says:
   May 31st, 2008 at 5:43 am

   Hi Tonya
   I will be sure to “write my way out” of this year’s claymation.

   And, ps232techteacher, I appreciate the link to your blog site — 2d animation sounds fun.

   Kevin

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5.   carla arena Says:
   June 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am

   We’re anxiously waiting for your feedback, Kevin. I’d love to know more about the behind the scenes, how you make it happen! So, are you posting their video production somewhere open to comments?

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6.   dogtrax Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 am

   We are still trying to finish the little movies before the year ends …. ahhhhhhh.
   It’s tough carving out blocks of time and time is what they need.
   Yes — I will share here and at our classroom blog.
   Thanks for asking and following our progress.

   Kevin

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