Clay-Mation

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 * iSTOPMOTION **


 * Area of Interaction: Health and Social Education **
 * Significant Concept: Students should understand the positive and negative consequences of an action and should be able to use iStop, iMovie, iDVD and Garageband for projects in all subject areas. **
 * Unit Question: How do my choices impact my life? **


 * REQUIREMENTS: **


 * 1) ** Take the Claymation Test on Skyward before you begin. **
 * 2) ** Create a new page on your wiki and name it "iStopMotion". Copy and paste this page into your wiki. **
 * 3) ** Use the Design Cycle to create your claymation. **
 * 4) ** Create a one-minute video using your own clay models, iStopMotion, and iMovie. **
 * 5) ** Use iStopMotion to create your video, use iMovie to edit your video. **
 * 6) ** Your movie needs to answer the question, "How do my choices impact my life". You need to show the positive and negative consequence of a choice. **
 * 7) ** Create the background and/or backdrop for your movie. You need to make it, do not use the backgrounds in iStop. **
 * 8) ** Once the movie is created export it to iMovie. **
 * 9) ** Add your own GarageBand or iMovie song/sound effects to your movie. **
 * 10) ** You must have a title at the beginning and end of your movie. Titles will count as ten seconds of your movie. **
 * 11) ** Upload your movie onto your wikispace. **
 * 12) ** You will receive MYP grades and an academic grade for this assignment. **

**Because you told us to, to get a grade because you will dock points, and it makes the ideas and project become better than it would without.** **The design cycle helps organize the project into a workable and more efficient process.**
 * INVESTIGATE: **
 * 1. Take the test on [|Skyward] **.
 * 2. Why are you using the Design Cycle for this assignment? **
 * 3. How will the Design Cycle help you with this assignment? **


 * 5. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **
 * - What materials do you have for this assignment? Clay, popsicle sticks, string, yarn, toothpicks **
 * - What software is required for you to use for this assignment? IMovie, IStopmotion. **
 * - How will you earn an academic grade for this assignment? For the Ib rubrics and making a claymation that mets all the requirements such as being 1 minute long and not being violent. **
 * - How will you earn your MYP grades for this assignment? Under each heading on this page there are questions about that step of the design cycle and the IB rubrics are of the steps. We will get the grade based on what is asked and how we did. **
 * - How can my choices change the lives of others positively and negatively? Every choice has a consequence whether good or bad. They affect yourself and others. Being helpful and doing service can be helpful and positive to others while beating another person up can be negative. **
 * - How can my choices change my life positively and negatively? Choices are made for yourself only by yourself. These choices directly affect us becuase what we choose can eiher helf or hurt us. Positive choices can change your life by making us become more confident and helpful while negative choices can make us conceited and selfish. **
 * - Why is it important to make positive choices in your life? Because choices affect our life for the remainder of it and positive choices will guide our lives where we want them to go. **
 * - Why is it important to our country that you make positive choices? Because if you make negative choices you can go to jail or hurt others which can cause stress or financial costs to the country. **

[|story board.pdf]
 * PLAN: **
 * 6. Brainstorm ideas for you clay-mation. Here is the chart: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png caption="external image pdf.png" link="http://bradfieldtechnology.wikispaces.com/file/view/IB+Brainstorming+Chart+.pdf"]] [|IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf] **
 * 7. Select one of your ideas and explain why you chose that idea: We choose idea 2 for the idea, but used the how it will happen from idea 1. We really liked our first plan because of its awesome plan, and it was the best. But overall we choose the 2nd to go with it so it would be the smoothest and cleanest to watch . **
 * 9. Use the story board paper to plan your clay-mation. Here is the storyboard: **
 * 10. Explain how you and your group will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days: (You need to explain who is going to do what, and how you will get this project done in 12 days. **
 * ** Day 1:Wikispace and brainstorming ideas, both **
 * ** Day 2:Story board, some wikispace,might start, both **
 * ** Day 3:frame 1-6, figuring out how to film, setting up background, both **
 * Day 4: ** frame 1-6, lots of pics **
 * Day 5:frame 1-6, ** lots of pics **
 * Day 6:frame 1-6, ** lots of pics **
 * Day 7:frame 1-6, ** lots of pics **
 * Day 8:frame 1-6, ** lots of pics **
 * Day 9:iMovie, import and setting up
 * ** Day 10 iMovie, sounds and cleaning and titles, wrapping up, both **
 * ** Day 11 checking requirements, both **
 * ** Day 12 wrapping up and wikispace, both **


 * CREATE: **
 * ** Use the computer, software, clay and other materials appropriately. **
 * ** Follow the steps of the plan you made in question #9. **
 * **Follow your storyboard.**
 * ** Pay attention to the quality of your presentation! **

**Postive choice can impact your life not just in the moment, but in the future as well. Just simple things like studying for a text can improve grades that can help you get into a good college. This can help your future career. However, bad choices as simple as running a red light can be as simple as getting you a ticket or as serious as taking your life and even someone else's.**
 * EVALUATE: **
 * 11. If you made any changes to your plan or story board, explain why you changed it: Yes, we added a new part **
 * ** Why did you change your plan? To meet time length **
 * ** Why did you change your story board? To meet time length **
 * 12. How could you improve your movie? Make it faster and better graphics **
 * 13. Does your movie meet all of the requirements? Yes, it is one minute and has a original backdrop and has all the iMovie parts. **
 * 14. Share your movie with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your movie? The cars and the background and right background music. **
 * 15. Give yourself a grade for each step of the Design Cycle: (1 - 6) **
 * ** Investigate:6 **
 * ** Plan:6 **
 * ** Create:6 **
 * ** Evaluate:6 **
 * 16. Were you responsible in using the software, computer, clay, and other materials? YES!!! **
 * 17. How do my choices impact my life? (Write at least a paragraph. Explain both positive and negative consequences, and how your choices impact others.) **


 * ATTITUDE: **
 * 18. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard"?. Explain your answer: Without complaining since we were always on task and didn't hate what we did, it was actually quite fun **
 * 19. Did you complete iStopMotion without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard"?: Yes, it was easy to use anyway so who would complain? **
 * 20. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6) 6 **


 * How You Will Receive a Letter Grade: **
 * 1) ** Investigate: 10 **
 * 2) ** Design: 10 **
 * 3) ** Plan: 10 **
 * 4) ** Create: 10 **
 * 5) ** Evaluate: 10 **
 * 6) ** Attitude: 10 **
 * 7) ** Your movie was at least a minute: 10 **
 * 8) ** You answered the unit question: 20 **
 * 9) ** Your movie answered the unit question: 20 (Shows the positive and negative consequence of a choice) **
 * 10) ** You made your own back drop: 10 **
 * 11) ** Your movie had titles, music, and sound effects: 30 **
 * 12) ** TOTAL = 150 POINTS **