Recently I've been on a video craze. I feel like I have been introduced to a number of influential videos in my classes lately. The above video, entitled "MUTO", is one I saw in my sculpture class today. This video demonstrates an art form called "stop-action video." Each frame is a different photograph, a different moment in time; the artowork which seems to move in this video is purely 2-dimensional art but, through minor changes and additions, the work is layered so that each photograph, when put together and viewed quickly in a video format, works together to make a moving image. While this is a very high end form of stop action video, I think it has meaning to us as educators. Students need to be introduced to non-traditional projects and subject matter such as this. I believe that not only would students be enthusiastic and engaged in creating projects such as this (on a small scale of course), but they would have the opportunity to strengthen their technological skills. If I were to focus an art lesson or unit on stop-motion photography and video the class would be preferably composed of 4th and 5th graders. This sort of project does not require much technical knowledge; video creation programs found on both PCs and MACs make it incredibly easy to paste photos and instantly compose a video.
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