I’ve developed an 8-class series in “experimental filmmaking” and will be presenting it to kids from New Orleans’ 7th ward during june and july, through the Porch’s summer “arts alive” camp at the Colton School.
This will be my first time teaching filmmaking, and I’m quite excited.
The projects will all have an element of experimentation, because experimentation is fun (and because I’ll only be with the kids 75 minutes a day and also because this is the first time that some of these students have used digital cameras). The camera’s are pretty amazing..”aiptek HD camcorder/still/audio” they’re pretty easy to use, and come with remote controls & tri-pods. The video quality is amazing..1080p is comparable to film…they even have a pretty awesome macro function…way better than even my “expensive” sony digital SLR.
The projects are: claymation, stop-motion/incremental drawing (life cycles) stop-motion/found object animation and “paper-cutouts/visual storytelling”, “puppets” and “1 minutes”. since the cameras also have an audio-recording function and a mic input, they will also be working to create soundtracks. We’ll also be doing some analogue animation projects: thaumatropes and flipbooks (which are, by the way, my latest love check out the historical overview link…wow!)
I can’t wait to see and share what they create!