Just taught first Kids’ Digital Filmmaking Camp: Making Your Own Stop Motion Animation
20K Films just taught their first Kids’ Digital Filmmaking Camp: Making Your Own Stop Motion Animation. We had 4 students (three 10 year olds and one 8 year old), and I was personally blown away with not only how creative they all were, but with how quickly they caught onto what we were teaching in the camp.
Assistant Class Manager, Quinlan Kyp-Johnson, was on hand to help with the camp, and between the two of us, we ha
d 2 different stop motion animation productions going on at the same time, and after simple tutorials in Final Cut Pro 7 and Apple’s music creation software, Garage Band, the students were making 2-3 stop motions per day!
The stop motions ranged from claymation to flip books to live person stop motion which gives the illusion of moving without walking and in one project, the illusion that one kid was riding the other kid like a skateboard something we saw someone do for a skateboard ad online and which we recreated with the students’ own original endi
ng.
I also pulled an old Halloween costume out of my closet that was an inflatable Sumo Wrestler costume, and the kids had a ball with that and included the suit in some of their stop motions. I remarked to one mother that I could have made an entire weeklong kids’ camp called Sumo Suit Camp and it would have easily filled!
I was surprised by how much the students took to Garage Band, the music generating software that comes with new Apple computers. I didn’t think that they would take as much of a liking or interest in it, especially after two of the students admitted that their least favorite class was (sadly) music. They all made their own music for their stop motions using this program and even went above and beyond and just made music just to make music which is s
omething that EVERYONE needs more of in their life.
You can read more about the students’ and parents’ thoughts on the camp here.
You can still sign up your child for a filmmaking camp this summer or to check out some 
of our adult filmmaking classes here.
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Looks like it was so much fun! I wish I had a kid … Or better yet, I wish I was a kid!
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