Animated Storytelling
Lights camera action! Using technology, cut out puppets and other animated objects, this immersive storytelling process involves research, writing, planning, team work, art making, computers and photography to create short animated movies focused on your curriculum and inquiry themes.
Suitable for all ages. Residencies may be tailored for one class, one grade level, one division, or for an entire school. Activities can take place over one day, one week, or spread out over several months.
Elbow Park Elementary K-6 students
Class Time: Once per week per class over several months.
Alexander Ferguson K- 6 students
Class Time: Once per week per class over several months.
Earl Grey Elementary Centennial Project K- 6 students
Class Time: Once per week per class over several months.
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Introduction to Animation
Class Time: One afternoon
Gymnaestrada: Introduction to Animation
Class Time: 1.5 hours
It was our great pleasure to work with CAOS. The digital storytelling, stop motion and artwork skills they learned through our work with CAOS artists created a profound message of social justice through animation and brilliant artwork that will live in the hearts and lives of our students.
CAOS worked extremely well with suggestions and plans from students and teachers when they helped our school produce our short documentary to celebrate our school’s centennial.
CAOS is an exceptional team of artists in residencies. CAOS enhanced a collaborative working environment at Elbow Park School, where all staff and students participated and embarked on learning how to create captivating animated videos through iStop motion. Our inspiration, What Do You Do With An Idea? By Kobi Yamada that led our students in creating powerful stories illustrating the importance of cultivating and nurturing our community. Working and learning alongside one another, CAOS was able to incorporate our thoughts and ideas in planning, storyboarding, creating effective scenes and executing 2-3 minute videos that were celebrated and showcased as part of a red carpet event to our community. To our excitement the Grade 5 video, Mayor vs Wetlands, was entered and part of the International Film Festival.
Our experience with CAOS was truly personalized. My students and I experimented with several animation techniques and experienced the real world process of developing an animated short. When our passion for claymation and creating characters went far beyond what the team was anticipating, CAOS readily altered their initial plan and created a custom 3-D recording studio, enabling the production of our award-winning claymation movie.