Our movie is a how to video using Star Wars figures to demonstrate the proper use of a combination lock for beginning Grade 7 students.
Well trying to get my head around this whole teacher research course I am currently taking. The professors are very knowledgable and fully accessible from Mexico through the internet. -Awesome!
I have read the assigned chapters from the first book, if I had more background experience in research I feel that this book would be more enlightening for me.
As I understand the design of the course we are to be actively engaged in a New Literacy Project of our choice. My group and I are working on a stop animation movie. I searched information regarding stop animation and also partook in a very elementary Professional Development session in the fall of 2010. There was opportunity to use a camera that was plugged in to a computer and we took pictures.
Having begun research on this stop animation project I discovered the importance of certain issues such as lighting, camera angle, background, posing the figures, slide speed and the use of batteries and having access to back up power etc. The funny thing was we actually ran out of battery power and had to recharge battery before we could finish the shoot.
The shoot consisted of my partners and I engaged in various aspects of the initial shoot of the raw footage. Mark was involved with posing the Star Wars figures, Ryan was the push the button to snap the photo, Jacques provided the space and tried to load the software from his camera onto his computer. I was involved in the field notes, as well as, the lighting positioning and imprting of the images into a computer.
We shot a scene which consisted of 2 storm troopers turning the dial on a combination lock.
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