Spring Children’s Program 2024: Stop Motion Storytelling (Ages: 11-14)

About this class

Inventive, playful, and immersive, this course invites young teens to develop illustrative characters and engage in storytelling through stop-motion animation. The course includes group activities designed to foster creative thinking and build skills that will be applied in individual projects. All classes are based on the fundamental principles of animation and covers the technical aspects of stop motion, such as lighting and framing. Through both one-on-one and group discussions, students are encouraged to develop their unique characters and personal voice.

Class Outline

Class 1: Project 1. Character and emotion (clay)

Class 2 & 3: Project 2. Two-colour character in a three-part story progression (paper)

Class 4 & 5: Project 3. Anthropomorphism and story (paint and paper)

Class 6: Finalize projects & showcase the collection of work. Family is warmly invited.

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUarts Qatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

• Watercolor Paper (some smooth, heavy weight paper)
• Selection of colored paper
• Heavy Colored paper (a couple of sheets of a couple of colours)
• Clay
• Your own iphone and tripod

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:

• Cass Art (Fire station)
• Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
• Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
• Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
• Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Thu, 15 Feb, 2024
End: Tue, 05 Mar, 2024
Lessons: 6
Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Location: VCUarts Qatar
Cost: 1000 QAR

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