• INSPIRATIONAL POSTER PROJECT
  • Animation Choice - Tutorials
    • Animation Principle #1 : Squash & Stretch (The Ball Bounce)
    • Animation Principle #2 Staging
    • Animation Principle #3 Timing (Countdown Bomb)
    • Adding Audio, Titles and Turning in your animations from Final Cut Pro
  Digital Communication's Class


7th Grade Curriculum

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Day 1 - Overview of projects 

Day 2 - Stopmotion Intro 


Building on the 6th grade 2-D animation skills
Differences between animation styles (pros and cons)
Animations in the workplace
Assign Individual Brainstorming Idea Form. 

Day 3 -
Share Ideas with group and narrow down to a final idea. 

Day 4 - 7
Finalize Ideas and begin storyboarding.
Share with whole class for peer/teacher feedback.
"Intention and Obstacle" - Developing a short story. 
Assign clay order form

Day 8 - 12
Intermediate Final Cut Pro Editing and Compositing

What makes special effects so special? Possible use in Stopmotion Project?  
Spaceship Invasion
skills covered:
green screen (keying)
Keyframing
color correction
Luma Keyer
Transform too
Cropping
Speed Ramping
Exporting/Submitting properly. 

Days 13 -17
Resume Stop Motion Animation (Clay Animation) - Small Group Pre-production Stage
Design sets, backgrounds, characters and props. 

Day 18 - Stopmotion App Demo and technique.
Animare - "To breathe life into" 
You work to the frame rate - not the other way around. 
Persistance of vision - Illusion
12 FPS - what we use
24 FPS - what the pros use. 
A minimum of 10 FPS needed for the animation illusion.
Go over rubric 

Day 19/20 - Students will get a chance to use the app to film  "The Throw" 
Take a picture and move every time UNLESS you are building in  an intentional pause. 
Smaller movements = Slower speed
Bigger movements  = faster speed. 
Revise and adjust/ problem solve until you master the timing compared to the master example. 

Day 21- 25  
Groups 1 - 4  - Film (5 days) 
​Groups 5 - 8  - Digital Photography Intro 

Days 26-30  Switch 1-4- Digital Photography
                                   5-8 - Film 


Days 31- 32  - Edit SM in Final Cut Pro 

Days 33 - 34 - Clean up/Watch Final Productions/Peer review and feedback. 
Take Home any photos you may want.  

*Intro To DSLR Digital Photography
1/2 period explianing concept 
1 1/2 period for students to practice concepts in the school environment. 


​Holding the camera properly 
Differences between DSLR and your phone camera/point and shoot. 

 Shutter Speed Mode  
Faster Shutter = Less light/Crisper Motion
                              Slowerer Shutter = More light - Blurred Motion
Great mode when shooting sports and fast moving objects. 

Aperture Mode  - Depth of Field - You control the area in focus

Small Aperture - More subject area in focus
Large Aperture - Less subject area in focus 
 
Great Mode for artistic shots and portraits

Summative Assessment -  DP Quiz

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