animated music videos using a blue screen
blue screen animated music videos
5th grade students in their art class at PS 124 incorporated original pastel drawings in a video, learned about stop motion animation, blue screens, and image mapping in this dynamic collaborative production.
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The Process:
As part of their art program, students watched examples of stop-motion animation on YouTube, and talked about the mechanics of film and video production, including frame rate (30 frames per second in video), and how they the appearance of time on screen. They performed test stop-motion animation projects using their bodies and plastic action figures to learn about how the removal of frames from video can change the appearance of reality.
Inspired by the work of South African artist Robin Rhode, students then planned a production that would superimpose their bodies defying gravity over a backdrop they would create with pastel chalk on paper. To plan how their bodies would move, students drew flipbooks using mini "post-it" pads, and drew a point-by-point map of how their body should move over their custom background. Students then were filmed on a blue screen (blue rolled-out art paper on the floor) moving the way they drew their figures in the flipbooks.
TMS replaced the blue screen with scans of the students' artwork using the "chroma-key" in Final Cut Pro, and used their point-by-point maps to move the video images of students across their background using "keyframes".
The composite videos were exported to a Quicktime movie and imported into iMovie, where students added music, titles, transitions, and digital effects to create a variety of music videos.