In early December our APRS class worked on a documentary about food at their school and the right to food in India. We’ll show you the finished project in January. While part of the class focused on editing their work in Final Cut Express under Ilana’s guidance, I encouraged some of the others to practice the stop-motion animations we had learned earlier in the semester. Since it had previously been difficult for them to understand that they should only move their drawings small amounts with each frame, this time I tried the method of animation with chalk drawings. The boys set up the tripod, and I demonstrated by drawing a cloud, taking a photo, drawing a raindrop, taking another photo, drawing another raindrop, and repeating. Art lovers that they are, they took my simple example and elaborated with more clever ones. The first series demonstrates their talents with letters and calligraphy:

APRS Letters and Calligraphy from The Modern Story on Vimeo.

The second series is a set of “how-to” drawings:

APRS Drawing Lessons from The Modern Story on Vimeo.

Additionally, some of the students who only joined the class recently took this time to practice making video slide shows. The boys love Windows Movie Maker’s array of transition and video effects, as you’ll see in Saleem’s project below. The photos are from a day when they practiced filming scenes from their favorite films. Thanks for watching!

APRS Video Production from The Modern Story on Vimeo.