Stop-Motion Animation Reflection

In the stop-motion animation assignment we used imovie which is fairly simple to use. One thing that I liked about it was how easily you could add your pictures to it and create a production. Going into it I thought that it was going to take our group a long time to take as many pictures that we needed.

I liked our groups idea, we used Marissa's dog, Mr. Ty as our star and we were a little uncertain how he was going to behave. But he actually did exactly what we wanted of him. Our public service announcement was on the importance of training your dog. Me and Marissa were having lunch and as I dropped something from the table, Mr. Ty jumped up and stole my sandwich that I was eating. Then Marissa decided to train him so he would behave better around her friends. The next time that we had lunch, he sat on the ground and was very well behaved the whole time. The moral of the story was that people love a well trained dog. It was a lot of fun and it was very cute.

I would love to create a stop-motion animation in my future classroom. Like I have said before, I really want to teach early elementary grades so some of the things that we have done are really more pertained to older students. But I an always thinking of ways that I can incorporate them for younger students. It may require a lot of help from me, but I am sure that they can be active participants in creating the story line and acting out the scenes.

I am still really surprised how fast we created it and how many pictures it took for only a minute or so for the final project.