Fast track the learning curve to making your own stop motion movies. It's fun, it's crazy, it's addictive. The 'Stop Motion Handbook' leads you through simple and robust processes helping both beginner and amateur animators make good decisions when creating stop motion movies. As you learn how to avoid numerous common mistakes, your first movies will have the quality of a more seasoned movie maker. It's a great guide for teachers, parents or children who want to produce their own stop motion movies. Learn key competencies across a broad range of curriculum learning areas: Developing a story and writing it into a SCRIPT Recording the AUDIO of the script (dialogue, sound effects, and music) in GarageBand, and saving it as a soundtrack Making PROPS and BACKGROUNDS and creating the CHARACTERS to bring your story to life Recording the stop motion PICTURES in iStopMotion EDITING the stop motion movie, if required. Adding a title and credits in iMovie. This book is an accessible reference resource; read it cover to cover, or dive in to a specific topic and work through the step by step guidelines. While the book covers many universal principles of stop motion the step by step examples refer to Mac software - GarageBand, iMovie and iStopMotion (www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview). "Stop motion animation has many educational benefits and uses within the classroom, from teaching skills such as teamwork, creative and structural thinking, and planning to providing students with immediate results and instant gratification. Students of all ages quickly learn the simple ins and outs of the software, and are animating within minutes. It is so important to encourage creative thinking within the classroom, and with iStopMotion you can do just that. The Stop Motion Handbook is the perfect way to learn stop motion, from how to write your own storyboard, making clay models, recording the sound and taking the pictures... Just follow the easy steps and you and your students or children will be animating in no time!"Oliver Breidenbach, CEO, Boinx SoftwareIncludes 13 outlines for Teacher Lesson Plans. The Stop Motion Handbook is also available in print.