Tuesday 29 January 2013

Stop Motion - Movies with a Message

We are getting ready for the 2nd annual Churchill Alternative School Stop Motion Film Festival.

This year our Film Festival has a theme, "Movies with a Message". Your message should be the title of your movie. Some of the Primaries ahve already filmed their movies and their messages are: "You Can Make 12 In Many Different Ways", "Safe Choices Are Good Choices" and "All Feelings are OK". As a class, we'll decide whether all our messages will be on the same theme or subject area, or if each group will make an individual choice. I was thinking that some of our class mottoes like: "We all learn on different ways on different days", "Tell it to the potato", "If you want to be trusted, be honest", etc. would make good messages for your movies. But, that's just a thought I had.

For this project, you will be in groups of four or five students. We will have a total of five groups in our class.

The steps involved in this project include:
-brainstorm
-storyboard
-write script
-collect and prepare props
-rehearse
-film (with cameras and tripods set up)

For some inspiration, check out last year's films and the films I've collected and posted below.























35 comments:

  1. Hi Guys, for my last day I would like to show you a stop motion video that I made. Just click on the link

    http://youtu.be/r5s5D8xKr9w

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    1. James I miss you!

      XD

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    2. I personaly like alternitive schools because its not compeditive like devonshire no offence

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  2. Dear,Shauna
    Thank you so much for posting those awesome stop motion videos!
    They really helped our class bring out our inner derector, and we are already putting our thinking caps on and brain-storming!

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  3. I think food fight has a really good message that war does not make anything better

    -Ethan



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  4. I have a idea... I'm not sure if I will actually do this, but right now it's just an idea. I think, for stop motion animation, there should be one about the 6-S line. There should be a bunch of little blobs in a line, and they are in big groups and they are noisy, and they are running, and frowning, and really not safe.
    Then one of the blobs realizes that it is bad, and starts following the expectations. Then, another one does well. Then another. Then another. Then, eventually, they are all behaving well and a teacher blob come up and says, "well isnt this a nice class?"


    I hope you approve my post! ;)

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    1. That's a nice idea! 1 of the blobs should say " I know, since we're not following the rules let's make up a 6 S line" and then they all come up with ideas and follows them!
      It's just an idea!

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    2. That would be awesome, Fiona! It would add more lines to the speech and it would more likely encourage other classes to do it too! Thanks for the idea!

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  5. My idea for a stop motion video is...
    a small piace of dust who gets to the top of planet coffie table
    his first words are...
    "a small step for dust,gient leap for dust kind"!
    The massege of the video is that you can make a differance no matter how small or big you are.
    I hope you guys like my video that is bast on Neal Armstrong

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    1. Cool I love your idea its vary creativ


      -Madi

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    2. That's a really cool idea, I LOVE IT!! :)
      What you could do as well, is you could have a bunch of other objects that are big saying "small things can't do anything" to the dust ball, then he climbs the coffee table and says "1 small step for dust, 1 giant leap for dust kind" and then he would prove them wrong by doing it. with the same message " YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR HOW BIG YOU ARE" or another message with that video could be "NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR TALL OR BIG YOU ARE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING"
      It's just an idea!
      -Fiona

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    3. I would love to be in your group because I love your idea and I think you have a really good message for your stop-motion! :0)

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  6. Ithink that we should be able to do astop motion video because my idea was I could do one like human skat board.

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  7. my idea was that some one would be sitting at a table and be getting frustrated with thare math and a thught bubble would come up and a girl would fall or a horse and she would get back up and ride of and then i would feel better.

    -Molly

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  8. I love that idea you should add dust marstins on the way up to planet coffie table!And i still love your idea!

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  9. Thomas the amazing7 February 2013 at 13:48

    I like the idea of tell it to the potato because every one is all ways coming to you and saying "shauna shauna came you help me when you are busy. So I want to do tell it to the potato for my stop motian video. And I think It would make a good stop motian video. And i like potatos!

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  10. my idea for a stop motion video is...

    1. the awakening

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  11. the awakening sounds cool but what would be yhe message

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  12. It sounds cool just there isint really no message

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  13. My Idea for a stop motion would be "The man who bought the sun".
    It is about how a greedy man buys the sun so that he could have the light all to himsef. But the consequences are: Endless nights. No sleep. Everyone else has no light! NO MORE SNEAK PEEKS!!! -Camden

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    1. NOOOOOO WE NEED SNEAK PEEKS!!!!

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  14. the food fight video has a bit of a message

    the message is if no one takes care of the world then thats whats

    going to happen to the world it will turn into a dissaster!

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  15. My idea for the stop motion video is...

    Norman gos to school and everybody teases him because of his colour of skin but one kid decides to not listen to the kid who is telling everyone to tease him and one by one everyone becomes his friend!

    The meaning of it is it does not matter what colour of your skin is!

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    1. I. LOVE. THIS.
      I would have never thought of this myself!
      You are so creative to think this up and it would also give Norman a chance to get out there and be in an AWESOME movie!
      (I am also completly against racism)
      I really hope you do this!

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    2. Gabby I love the idea you are definitly right that it doesn't matter what the colour of you skin is, i'm all for the idea.
      -Fin

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    3. This is a really cool way to fight racism!

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    4. Love the idea to like Millie said you should do that it would be AWSOME!

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  16. I AGREE WITH GABBYS ANTI racisim STOPMOTION

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  17. Ive got an idea so one day a lonely laptop comes to our classroom he thinks nobody likes him and when the big bad desktop bullys him and all the little laptops stick up for him the end!

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  18. the one called her morning ellagance was a really cool one because it just started off as a woman sleeping and then she started doing a whole bunch of cool things!

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  19. Im doing tell it to the potato

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  20. I wanna do mine about dancing. So 1 guy is really bored and then (lightbuld) he starts dancing really well and everybody crowds around and likes his dancing. So basicly the message is you can dowhat ever you want even if you think people will laugh at you.

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  21. i want to do tell it to the potato daniel

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  22. we should do it about smoking because it's bad for you and ya

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