Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tuesday April 13th

Our last day... Pizza Party!






Tuesday March 6th

Fun with stop motion!


Jumping...


Friday, April 9, 2010

Fuji Instant Film!

With our limited time remaining, we decided to shift gears a bit, and focus more on projects that can be completed in one or two class periods. Today, we learned a bit about the history of photograph, the mechanics of cameras, how to use light meters, etc.

Here are a few images of our experiments and some of the results:













Monday, April 5, 2010

Tuesday March 30th

New Students!

Today we got more students to our class, so the day was spent bringing them up to speed with the project and deciding on characters for their movie.










Tuesday March 16th

Today we continued to create characters and develop the stop motion story.




Friday, March 12, 2010

First Day of Shooting

Today we continued with set construction, with hot-glue guns as reinforcements. With the first set constructed, we began shooting the first scene of the our movie. Here's a sneak peek at our first set-up.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Set Construction

Today we worked on set construction in our class. Designing specific sets will allow us to immerse the viewer into a more believable environment. Using simple materials for backgrounds and props, we are creating the interior of a spacecraft for one of our scenes.