The workshop took place in the Montclair Museum. The museum is surrounded by amazing gardens and wonderful art pieces. We were able to gather in one of their art spaces, where visiting professor Ann Le Pore, was able to teach the girls about the principles of composition. Then, the girls chose a painting to reproduce from a selection of them.

Then, we went out to the gardens. Each of us quickly assumed a different role. Some of us took care of costumes, others of flip cameras and others took care of time keeping. We rotated roles so that all of the IB participants had their photos taken. Soon, we collected stop motions of each of the girls.

After lunch, we went to the computer labs to edit the different footage we had gathered. We were able to work together with the girls and arrive at successful results. 

The weather accented the mood of the day in Montclair, NJ.  The warm sun and quite wind provided the perfect setting for the girls to create sound effects for their stop motion video at the Montclair Museum of Art, last Saturday, April 28^th.  Ann, the stop-motion instructor and the girls got off the bus, settled down in the studio, then began rationing the duties for the day.  The tasks of the day included creating portraits, sound effects, and stop-motion videos.  Ann set up a rotation of activities so that all the girls had the opportunity to participate in each activity.   The activities included making audio on sophisticated recording devices, taking portraits with the subjects holding picture frames, finishing the group and individual stop-motion project.  For lunch the girls enjoyed pizza, blackberries, and strawberries to fit the summer mood.  The girls resumed their activities until they finished.  Next the group headed up stairs to the lab to convert their home assignment videos into stop-motion.  The day wrapped-up with the girls working on shooting their angle scene based on the painting they were presented with on the first day of stop motion.