Stop Motion at Rich Sorro
This spring, Streetside Teaching Artist Chelsea Carl’s students at Mission Housing, Rich Sorro Commons, learned how to create stop motion videos. Taking inspiration from the kind of superheroes they would like to be, students explored questions to inform their work:
What is your superhero’s name? Where are you from? What does your costume look like? What are your struggles? What are your superpowers and purpose in helping the community?
Students created paper puppets of their superhero selves with moving joints, painted their background, and went to work! They set up an iPad on a plexiglass panel, and used a Stopmotion app to bring their stories to life. Frame by frame students moved their puppets to create a moving image. When they were done, students brought their stop motion animation into iMovie to record their voice-overs and add titles.
We are excited to see these videos premiere to their family and friends at the upcoming May 2018 Rich Sorro Commons showcase!