Bring Your Stories to Life: Paper Stop-Motion Workshop
Have you ever wanted to see your drawings jump, run, or blast across a screen? Turn your flat sketches into moving stories during our after-school workshop, Paper Stop-Motion Creators! This three-session program is open to all fifth-grade students who want to explore the basics of animation using simple craft materials and school technology.
Stop-motion is a classic filmmaking technique where still objects are moved in tiny amounts and captured one frame at a time. When the pictures are played back quickly, the characters appear to move on their own. During this beginner-friendly club, you will invent your own original paper characters, cut them out, and design miniature cardboard backdrops. Then, working in teams of two or three, you will use a school tablet equipped with an animation app to record your short scene.
- animation:
- The process of photographing drawings or still models to create the illusion of movement.
- stop-motion:
- A filming method where still objects are moved small amounts between individual pictures.
- backdrops:
- Painted or decorated backgrounds placed behind characters in a scene.
- storyboards:
- Sets of rough sketches arranged in order to plan the scenes and action of a movie.
- stability:
- The state of being steady and not shaking or moving out of place.
- collaboration:
- Working together with other people to achieve a shared goal.
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