Project Live & iRead Project 3

I decided the final project for both Project Live and iRead would be a whole class student only production.  I wanted to see how far the students could go with a project that incorporated both video and voice to increase reading comprehension.  It was decided that we would use one of the last non-fiction selections from our anthology and turn it into a movie.  We used the story "The Grizzly Bear Family Book".  I saw a video at the iVIE festival that used torn paper art stop animation and thought it might be a fun way to get the whole class involved.  The story is divided into the four seasons, following a family of grizzlies, and lent itself naturally to four groups.  The groups got together and turned their section of the story into a movie script and storyboard.  Following editing and approval by the whole class, groups got together to make their backgrounds and characters.  Scenes were entirely student shot and edited (I really limited my input on this one).  A narrator was chosen to record in Garageband and several attempts were made to match the words with the movie.  The finishing touches were to add some rain and snow special effects and add a soundtrack.  My job was to film a documentary with 2 student directors of the process, which i will post separately.  Enjoy!