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I think this project was brilliant and fun! I am now sooo going to do this in my classroom no matter what my budget is. I WILL make it happen! It was difficult at the beginning to get the idea started and get it moving, but once it was done and I started editing my images, it was SUPER fun!
I am honestly, sick of my video, after seeing it about 20 bazillion times through editing and showing it off.
I really enjoyed this project more than I thought I would. I feel like if I had managed my time a little better, I'd be able to come up with something a it more complex - but I can see the benefits of showing this to a class. I'm not going to lie, I'll probably make a new video some time in the future - maybe something completely animated, or something that has to do with pixelization.
Also, showing it to everyone involved is so worth the effort. They all love it.
I really enjoyed the idea of this project. When I am teaching, I would absolutely love to do this project with my students. However, I had a lot of trouble getting my ideas to come together. I was able to figure most of it out, and once I got started, I felt that it was easier to work with. I would love to see what creativity high school students would have making this, since the ones I've seen in class have been amazing. I think it takes a lot of patience to do a video like this, but it is a really fun project, especially since the results came out so good!
This was fun but difficult. I can understand why animation is so under-appreciated after making one myself.
A couple constructive criticisms for myself... - making these videos takes way different time management skills, - better to pick an idea and go for it than to keep trying to plan things out ahead of time, - like any art media, the end product and the intended product will be very different things.
Things I'm happy with... - took some risks trying to make my own puppet and green screen, - had to discard unused pixillation footage, but that was fun to make anyway, - I'm surprised that making an autoethnographic video is just as revealing and has the same risk of vulnerability as any other art media (i.e. painting, poetry, music, etc), - I didn't expect the way music and sound added to and changed the video. I got really excited about the possibilities, though. And it cracked me up.
Overall... I totally want to do this again. I love that it can be really fun and quirky when used one way and sophisticated and vague when used in another way.
I totally loved this assignment and intend to use this as a teaching method. I believe it would be alot of fun to do this with kids or adults of any age. I believe with my own project I would have done a few things differently. Like made sure my camera was charged before I went to my aunts office to work. I would also not used so many dolls because I believe my video is a bit confusing. I have always argued to use technology as a medium and this just supports that argument. I love the concepts everyone came up with. It is always interesting to see what others do it inspires me in new ways. It has made me want to use stop motion in my other classes for assignments, now if I can figure out how to do it.
I thought this project was fun and interesting. it was new to me but it makes me want to create more videos on my own. I thought it would be very time consuming but it was not that bad! I enjoyed it! :)
I really liked this project especially after we viewed the videos together I thought it was interesting that the more we watched the more we connected with the stories being told. I did find it stressful developing the story line and I think that was more time consuming than the actual creation of the animation. If I were to do anything differently I would probably add more detail to keep animation from being so confusing. The part I had the most fun with was definitely remixing the music and I think I will personally take a lot away from just that aspect of the project. This would be something really great to do in a class and students would definitely have a blast with it. It's so great seeing all of the projects together and how everyone found a different way to approach the requirements of the assignment.
I wanted to add one more thing to my comment on this project. After viewing all of the projects in class I regret not exploring different aspects of the animating. I think maybe if we had a check up part way through the assignment so that we could see what other people are doing this might help this issue. It could be as simple as just explaining the process and not necessarily showing what you have so far so that your video is still a surprise during the class exhibition.
I thoroughly enjoyed this project because it allowed me to express many things that I might not otherwise have been able to, or necessarily felt comfortable expressing by other means. I loved learning and incorporating the various techniques that we learned throughout this project. I feel that something like this is EXTREMELY useful in a classroom setting where some kids will feel more readily able to express themselves.
I loved this project. I posted it on Facebook and it was like instant fame. :) It's a part of art that isn't thoroughly explored. People don't realize how easy it is. Animation is definitely something new to me. I had a lot of fun with it. It was interesting learning how to use imovie. My animation got stuck on Ken Burns and it was the most frustrating thing ever. I eventually figured it out though. Also, I had some time management issues with this project (it was purely my fault). Because the animation was a self portrait, I felt awkward about creating it in class. I did most of it at home in my studio. I struggled with making the figure walk (for some reason this was my biggest problem). I wish I had done more research on walking figures. It might have come out better. Then there were other parts that came out so amazing I was shocked. Overall, I was very happy with how it turned out. I definitely want to try it again and I think that it would be a great project to incorporate into future curriculum.
I enjoyed this project a lot and I think it would be a hit in the classroom. I learned through this how creative and interactive you can be with this technological artform. I think also it's a wonderful way to introduce technology in the classroom. With my project in particular, I would have probably compiled my ideas in a more creative way, it can just be difficult when it's a new form of expression. I will definitely be doing this again whether it's on my own or in my future classes.
I ended up loving this project! I was skeptical at first with the theme being so... intense? But then I let my worries go and just tried to convey something meaningful but in a fun way of depicting such a seemingly serious topic. I really liked my overall product! The only thing is I wish it was a little bit longer. I will definitely use this project in my future teaching!
i really enjoyed the project it opened my eyes to a new way of making a art piece. And i also enjoyed that i could make it cheaply which is very rare in being an art student. The project was somewhat difficult though the taking so many pictures for a small video. I really enjoyed seeing something i made in motion it was the first time i saw my work moving i had never made a film before this point. All and all it was a big eye opener
I'm excited to do this project with my students when I become a teacher. It was REALLY INTIMIDATING with all the examples shown to us on youtube, but once I actually took action and went "hands on" with the material (claymation and pixilation), then it didn't seem so scary. I think that Ill make my students make videos in class with each type of animation technique- so that when they try it and see how simple it is, it will break that same fear barrier that I experienced.
The concept was really vague, which made me want to be vague too. The fact that it was so open ended made me want to use so many symbols that (if asked about it) I can explain, but the viewer may not understand otherwise. After seeing some videos, I see now that the video could have been about something simple versus a life changing event. I don't think my video is as good as it could have been- because I was so concerned with colors and the shape of the clay object that it the end result was not as impressive as I imagined. I wish it could have been more straight forward and not confusing for the viewer - i'm scared people will think "what is the point of this?" But hopefully they will understand by hearing the song, and the changes in color, and then my short whiteboard cartoon.
I like my cartoon :] special thanks to Jeremy for noticing how shy i was in class, and taking the time to show me the other room so I could experiment with the whiteboard by myself. If he had not done that, I would have gone straight home to stress and cry about this project. So thanks for being nice to the shy kids. it means a lot :]
When I look back on my video one of the first things that pops out is the night I finished it. I was super proud to finally call it done. I was a little nervous, but I figured I would just have to wait and see how everyone liked it. I am writing this post-viewing in class and I enjoyed the candidness. I was surprised by the way Jeremy thought that I was being very deep. It made me watch it again with different eyes. And now I see that my old life was embarrassing and that I related myself to the world as an awkward nerd.
When I posted this on facebook, I got some interesting feedback. On person said that they wanted the beginning to be slower. Another person said the "revenge of the nerds" song was too loud. The person who helped me shoot it said that he would have used a tripod if he had the time to do it over again. These feedbacks helped me evaluate my experience. I basically came up with an idea and ran with it. I didn't want to do something dark, goodness knows, I have had enough of that topic. I was surprised when Jeremy did not tell me I was finished and made me find the end on my own. That was frustrating but refreshing.
In the future. I would have built this up with students. Maybe one technique at a time so that we could master them and use them effectively.
I think students will definitely enjoy the assignment. I value the self analysis involved in the creation of an auto-ethnography, specifically the cultural criticism involved. However, personally, I found the stop motion medium restrictive because I didnt own a camera and had to borrow one; one that wasnt particularly suitable for nonstop picture-taking. Likewise, I am not particularly keen on the hours of sitting in front of the computer editing. All in all, I am happy with the result and would try to make stop motion available to my classroom.
AHH! This completely slipped my mind. I am so sorry. I thoroughly enjoyed this project. I will definitely be using something like this project in my classes, although I might have smaller technical projects before that build up to the final project. I guess in college you can just through us in, but in high school that might be too much.
Initially after finishing my project, I didn't think it was that awesome. I didn't think it was a big deal or that I really put myself out there. Editing it for three hours led me to only see the faults, as I do in most of my projects. The reaction to my video was surprising for me. That people actually related to what I did was amazing. I had a greater effect than I ever intended. I posted it on facebook and my sister cried, having been through the same thing I have. I wasn't sure if it represented a panic attack at all. I hoped it did, that it had actually gotten the feeling of it across, but I wasn't sure. People who have had panic attacks though keep saying that it's exactly how it feels. I don't know. I don't want to seem like I'm gloating. It was just really cool for me for my art to have an emotional effect on people. That's never happened before. I think there's something to using technology as a means to communicate an idea. It may be warped, but it feels more personal to people. They watch the video in their home and they experience it, both the visual and sound. I guess it just makes the art more encompassing, which really surprised me, but was cool. I also enjoyed the sharing aspect. I was so excited to share my video on facebook and it was so easy. I could show everyone my art so quickly! It was really cool. I think that's one of the coolest things about using technology, the mass audience effect. That you can share it so easily with so many people and then they can share it with other people and you can effect people you wouldn't usually be able to reach as a poor college student. That was just really cool that I affected one of my sister's coworker's nieces. That blows my mind that my art got that far and meant something to somebody that far removed from myself.
Anyway, I guess the flaws that were so apparent to me right after finishing the project that I wish I had changed would be: 1) The shift of the music at the end. I would have faded the clips into eachother so that the transition wasn't so blunt. 2) I would've taken more time to analyze how a human walks and done better at portraying that in the scene where I'm walking down the hall. 3) Of course, I would've experimented more with green screen. I might've tried overlaying my clips Tuesday before the project was due and then reshoot them to make them fit better and put them together Thursday in class. I know Jeremy doesn't agree, but I wish that part was better. I've accepted it now, but of course I could always improve.
Even though I still see all these flaws, I love my video now. It's my little baby and I'm proud of it.
I absolutely adored this project and enjoyed viewing everyone's as well. I think this project allowed so much room for creativity and self reflection of ourselves. I also enjoyed this for my own self reflection/opening up my brain into a different form of media, technology. After much effort into figuring out the Imovie system and using the techniques I know have an idea of how to use such systems. So for next time there is a lot of more detailed technical issues I would change... Which would help the visual asthetic of my projects. However, overall I think I understand the concepts and what the goal was for this project. I had fun.
I loved this project because instead of trying to represent something apart from ourselves we were writing a 2 minute long compact story of what we know best- our lives. I loved being able to declare what happened to me and show that it never changed a thing about me. i am really excited to present this to my future classes and hopefully they find it as much fun and as engaging as i did. by making the video i learned theres a lot more to my story than i thought! i always just think of myself as... eh... me. but there was so much that i wasn't able to put into the video that i wish i had had the time and the resources to make a movie that would interact with the viewer even- my story is nothing new- and i think that that is special.I can relate to anyone and anyone can relate to me, or find a strength or weakness that they need. i had so much fun with this project and really think i may make a lesson plan for it!!!
I think this project was brilliant and fun! I am now sooo going to do this in my classroom no matter what my budget is. I WILL make it happen! It was difficult at the beginning to get the idea started and get it moving, but once it was done and I started editing my images, it was SUPER fun!
ReplyDeleteI am honestly, sick of my video, after seeing it about 20 bazillion times through editing and showing it off.
I really enjoyed this project more than I thought I would. I feel like if I had managed my time a little better, I'd be able to come up with something a it more complex - but I can see the benefits of showing this to a class. I'm not going to lie, I'll probably make a new video some time in the future - maybe something completely animated, or something that has to do with pixelization.
ReplyDeleteAlso, showing it to everyone involved is so worth the effort. They all love it.
I really enjoyed the idea of this project. When I am teaching, I would absolutely love to do this project with my students. However, I had a lot of trouble getting my ideas to come together. I was able to figure most of it out, and once I got started, I felt that it was easier to work with. I would love to see what creativity high school students would have making this, since the ones I've seen in class have been amazing. I think it takes a lot of patience to do a video like this, but it is a really fun project, especially since the results came out so good!
ReplyDeleteThis was fun but difficult. I can understand why animation is so under-appreciated after making one myself.
ReplyDeleteA couple constructive criticisms for myself...
- making these videos takes way different time management skills,
- better to pick an idea and go for it than to keep trying to plan things out ahead of time,
- like any art media, the end product and the intended product will be very different things.
Things I'm happy with...
- took some risks trying to make my own puppet and green screen,
- had to discard unused pixillation footage, but that was fun to make anyway,
- I'm surprised that making an autoethnographic video is just as revealing and has the same risk of vulnerability as any other art media (i.e. painting, poetry, music, etc),
- I didn't expect the way music and sound added to and changed the video. I got really excited about the possibilities, though. And it cracked me up.
Overall... I totally want to do this again. I love that it can be really fun and quirky when used one way and sophisticated and vague when used in another way.
I totally loved this assignment and intend to use this as a teaching method. I believe it would be alot of fun to do this with kids or adults of any age. I believe with my own project I would have done a few things differently. Like made sure my camera was charged before I went to my aunts office to work. I would also not used so many dolls because I believe my video is a bit confusing. I have always argued to use technology as a medium and this just supports that argument. I love the concepts everyone came up with. It is always interesting to see what others do it inspires me in new ways. It has made me want to use stop motion in my other classes for assignments, now if I can figure out how to do it.
ReplyDeleteI thought this project was fun and interesting. it was new to me but it makes me want to create more videos on my own. I thought it would be very time consuming but it was not that bad! I enjoyed it! :)
ReplyDeleteI really liked this project especially after we viewed the videos together I thought it was interesting that the more we watched the more we connected with the stories being told. I did find it stressful developing the story line and I think that was more time consuming than the actual creation of the animation. If I were to do anything differently I would probably add more detail to keep animation from being so confusing. The part I had the most fun with was definitely remixing the music and I think I will personally take a lot away from just that aspect of the project. This would be something really great to do in a class and students would definitely have a blast with it. It's so great seeing all of the projects together and how everyone found a different way to approach the requirements of the assignment.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to add one more thing to my comment on this project. After viewing all of the projects in class I regret not exploring different aspects of the animating. I think maybe if we had a check up part way through the assignment so that we could see what other people are doing this might help this issue. It could be as simple as just explaining the process and not necessarily showing what you have so far so that your video is still a surprise during the class exhibition.
DeleteI thoroughly enjoyed this project because it allowed me to express many things that I might not otherwise have been able to, or necessarily felt comfortable expressing by other means. I loved learning and incorporating the various techniques that we learned throughout this project. I feel that something like this is EXTREMELY useful in a classroom setting where some kids will feel more readily able to express themselves.
ReplyDeleteI loved this project. I posted it on Facebook and it was like instant fame. :) It's a part of art that isn't thoroughly explored. People don't realize how easy it is. Animation is definitely something new to me. I had a lot of fun with it. It was interesting learning how to use imovie. My animation got stuck on Ken Burns and it was the most frustrating thing ever. I eventually figured it out though. Also, I had some time management issues with this project (it was purely my fault). Because the animation was a self portrait, I felt awkward about creating it in class. I did most of it at home in my studio. I struggled with making the figure walk (for some reason this was my biggest problem). I wish I had done more research on walking figures. It might have come out better. Then there were other parts that came out so amazing I was shocked. Overall, I was very happy with how it turned out. I definitely want to try it again and I think that it would be a great project to incorporate into future curriculum.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this project a lot and I think it would be a hit in the classroom. I learned through this how creative and interactive you can be with this technological artform. I think also it's a wonderful way to introduce technology in the classroom. With my project in particular, I would have probably compiled my ideas in a more creative way, it can just be difficult when it's a new form of expression. I will definitely be doing this again whether it's on my own or in my future classes.
ReplyDeleteI ended up loving this project! I was skeptical at first with the theme being so... intense? But then I let my worries go and just tried to convey something meaningful but in a fun way of depicting such a seemingly serious topic. I really liked my overall product! The only thing is I wish it was a little bit longer. I will definitely use this project in my future teaching!
ReplyDeletei really enjoyed the project it opened my eyes to a new way of making a art piece. And i also enjoyed that i could make it cheaply which is very rare in being an art student. The project was somewhat difficult though the taking so many pictures for a small video. I really enjoyed seeing something i made in motion it was the first time i saw my work moving i had never made a film before this point. All and all it was a big eye opener
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to do this project with my students when I become a teacher. It was REALLY INTIMIDATING with all the examples shown to us on youtube, but once I actually took action and went "hands on" with the material (claymation and pixilation), then it didn't seem so scary. I think that Ill make my students make videos in class with each type of animation technique- so that when they try it and see how simple it is, it will break that same fear barrier that I experienced.
ReplyDeleteThe concept was really vague, which made me want to be vague too. The fact that it was so open ended made me want to use so many symbols that (if asked about it) I can explain, but the viewer may not understand otherwise. After seeing some videos, I see now that the video could have been about something simple versus a life changing event.
I don't think my video is as good as it could have been- because I was so concerned with colors and the shape of the clay object that it the end result was not as impressive as I imagined. I wish it could have been more straight forward and not confusing for the viewer - i'm scared people will think "what is the point of this?" But hopefully they will understand by hearing the song, and the changes in color, and then my short whiteboard cartoon.
I like my cartoon :] special thanks to Jeremy for noticing how shy i was in class, and taking the time to show me the other room so I could experiment with the whiteboard by myself. If he had not done that, I would have gone straight home to stress and cry about this project. So thanks for being nice to the shy kids. it means a lot :]
When I look back on my video one of the first things that pops out is the night I finished it. I was super proud to finally call it done. I was a little nervous, but I figured I would just have to wait and see how everyone liked it. I am writing this post-viewing in class and I enjoyed the candidness. I was surprised by the way Jeremy thought that I was being very deep. It made me watch it again with different eyes. And now I see that my old life was embarrassing and that I related myself to the world as an awkward nerd.
ReplyDeleteWhen I posted this on facebook, I got some interesting feedback. On person said that they wanted the beginning to be slower. Another person said the "revenge of the nerds" song was too loud. The person who helped me shoot it said that he would have used a tripod if he had the time to do it over again. These feedbacks helped me evaluate my experience. I basically came up with an idea and ran with it. I didn't want to do something dark, goodness knows, I have had enough of that topic. I was surprised when Jeremy did not tell me I was finished and made me find the end on my own. That was frustrating but refreshing.
In the future. I would have built this up with students. Maybe one technique at a time so that we could master them and use them effectively.
I think students will definitely enjoy the assignment. I value the self analysis involved in the creation of an auto-ethnography, specifically the cultural criticism involved. However, personally, I found the stop motion medium restrictive because I didnt own a camera and had to borrow one; one that wasnt particularly suitable for nonstop picture-taking. Likewise, I am not particularly keen on the hours of sitting in front of the computer editing. All in all, I am happy with the result and would try to make stop motion available to my classroom.
ReplyDeleteAHH! This completely slipped my mind. I am so sorry. I thoroughly enjoyed this project. I will definitely be using something like this project in my classes, although I might have smaller technical projects before that build up to the final project. I guess in college you can just through us in, but in high school that might be too much.
ReplyDeleteInitially after finishing my project, I didn't think it was that awesome. I didn't think it was a big deal or that I really put myself out there. Editing it for three hours led me to only see the faults, as I do in most of my projects. The reaction to my video was surprising for me. That people actually related to what I did was amazing. I had a greater effect than I ever intended. I posted it on facebook and my sister cried, having been through the same thing I have. I wasn't sure if it represented a panic attack at all. I hoped it did, that it had actually gotten the feeling of it across, but I wasn't sure. People who have had panic attacks though keep saying that it's exactly how it feels. I don't know. I don't want to seem like I'm gloating. It was just really cool for me for my art to have an emotional effect on people. That's never happened before. I think there's something to using technology as a means to communicate an idea. It may be warped, but it feels more personal to people. They watch the video in their home and they experience it, both the visual and sound. I guess it just makes the art more encompassing, which really surprised me, but was cool. I also enjoyed the sharing aspect. I was so excited to share my video on facebook and it was so easy. I could show everyone my art so quickly! It was really cool. I think that's one of the coolest things about using technology, the mass audience effect. That you can share it so easily with so many people and then they can share it with other people and you can effect people you wouldn't usually be able to reach as a poor college student. That was just really cool that I affected one of my sister's coworker's nieces. That blows my mind that my art got that far and meant something to somebody that far removed from myself.
Anyway, I guess the flaws that were so apparent to me right after finishing the project that I wish I had changed would be:
1) The shift of the music at the end. I would have faded the clips into eachother so that the transition wasn't so blunt.
2) I would've taken more time to analyze how a human walks and done better at portraying that in the scene where I'm walking down the hall.
3) Of course, I would've experimented more with green screen. I might've tried overlaying my clips Tuesday before the project was due and then reshoot them to make them fit better and put them together Thursday in class. I know Jeremy doesn't agree, but I wish that part was better. I've accepted it now, but of course I could always improve.
Even though I still see all these flaws, I love my video now. It's my little baby and I'm proud of it.
Sorry that was so damn long. Didn't think it was til I posted it. Whoops.
DeleteI absolutely adored this project and enjoyed viewing everyone's as well. I think this project allowed so much room for creativity and self reflection of ourselves. I also enjoyed this for my own self reflection/opening up my brain into a different form of media, technology. After much effort into figuring out the Imovie system and using the techniques I know have an idea of how to use such systems. So for next time there is a lot of more detailed technical issues I would change... Which would help the visual asthetic of my projects. However, overall I think I understand the concepts and what the goal was for this project. I had fun.
ReplyDeleteI loved this project because instead of trying to represent something apart from ourselves we were writing a 2 minute long compact story of what we know best- our lives. I loved being able to declare what happened to me and show that it never changed a thing about me. i am really excited to present this to my future classes and hopefully they find it as much fun and as engaging as i did. by making the video i learned theres a lot more to my story than i thought! i always just think of myself as... eh... me. but there was so much that i wasn't able to put into the video that i wish i had had the time and the resources to make a movie that would interact with the viewer even- my story is nothing new- and i think that that is special.I can relate to anyone and anyone can relate to me, or find a strength or weakness that they need. i had so much fun with this project and really think i may make a lesson plan for it!!!
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