Jamie used the Tutorials chapter in the Everyone Can Create Video project guide to help students learn about imagery and bring descriptions from a novel to life.
In this activity, Jamie’s students learned how to recreate a passage from a class text using animation. Students started their project by identifying examples of similes and metaphors in descriptive passages from the class text they were reading.
They used clay, cardboard, and a stop-motion animation app to make a video that illustrated their chosen passage.
Students then created a graphic overlay using Keynote on a wide (16:9) slide. A green shape was used as a placeholder for their animation. They exported their slide as an image to add to their iMovie project.
Students brought their work together in iMovie by adding their stop-motion video, using the Green Screen feature to bring in the overlay they made in Keynote, and finally recording their voice reading the passage from the class text.
Using stop-motion animation to bring stories to life allows students to visualize descriptive language and understand texts on a deeper level.