Day off of CFK

I'm officially half-way finished with my first set of College For Kids classes. Monday I'll be finished exporting all the videos completed last week and put the credits at the end of each of the pieces (and title at the beginning). I also need to hunt down music to go with the short videos. In the meantime, check out the video below by Emily.

Turtle by Emily



In other news... Job hunting
Today I spoke with a principal at a local high school. They are hiring a graphics arts teacher to teach 1 class during 8th hour. Have you ever heard of a 5hr/week? I am really interested in beginning at a school, particularly high school teaching design, but this will either be a wedge between morning/evening work or stop me from getting full-time employment somewhere. I was thinking I'd see they would provide me with a planning period (to make it a 10hr/week) or make me a permanent substitute teacher for the semester. I know I don't want to do spend the whole day doing hall monitoring, as I would rather piecemeal a teaching schedule around town than do mundane things at one school (all for the sake of insurance).

Stop-Motion Project - Creatures in Action

I had my students sculpted creatures yesterday and tape them today. Below is a sample of the videos that came out of it.


Octopus by Lauren

Blue Rabbit

Today the Girl that Got her Hair Cut Off morphed into a Blue Rabbit. This is practice video focusing on movement and color consistency.

With cheap cameras you will have really slow reaction to the color balance. I'm working with a XBox360Live. You really need to wait about 3-5 seconds once your hands have left the 'stage' for the camera to have enough time to adjust the coloring. This was an unpredicted piece of knowledge I get to share today. Can't wait to write it into a lesson plan!

First attempt at Claymation:

Girl Realizing her Hair got Cut Off
This is my first attempt at making a Claymation video with iStopMotion. Its a little out of focused and the environment isn't so well planned, but the short is fun.