Animation Station is an after-school program for students that allows them to express themselves through the art of stop motion animation. Kim Left shows students how to use clay, paper, and pen to animate stories, local history, and names of local people and places.
Age: Grades 5 - 12 Registration required
Tues. and Thurs. 3:30 - 5:30pm
Below is the animation that students completed during and RPM animation workshop. Great job girls!
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
RPM works with community organizations to produce programs which are important to them. RPM takes on these projects as funds become available. In 2011 we completed a project with the Sault High Environmental Club in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan. We assisted 8 high school students in the making of this promotional video on the hiking and skiing trails in their community. We provided them with video production training and equipment and edited the video according to their directions. In all we spent 18 contact hours with the students.
Here's a video that shows the making of the promotional video and the work that went into it.
Below is a video completed by five 8th grade members of the East Jordan Shoe Club. The participants completed a one-week video production workshop and completed this video on the Jordan River Watershed.
Folklore to Film engages youth in the preservation and retention of local arts, history and culture through video. This program is modeled after the highly successful Foxfire program. Guided by Real People Media staff and volunteers, students will interview area residents and produce a series of 5- 10 minute videos depicting the local wisdom, traditions, teachings, and experience of these elders. These programs will be shared via the web and Charter Television's Public Access Channel - UpNorth2.
Students will choose from a variety of topics which may include:Music - Fiddling, drumming, polka, etc.
Sports - Sled dog racing, skiing, basketball,
Food - Morels, wild leeks, hunting, gardening, maple syrup, cranberries.
Water - Fishing - ice fishing, fly fishing, commercial fishing, Boat Building,
Environment - Water quality, fish and animal population, etc.
Work - Boat building, farming, tanning, iron works, etc.
Arts and Leisure - Theater, Venetian Festival
Participants learn how to produce short documentary films and:
Production Skills:
Operation of video camera, microphone and other video production equipment.
Operation of video camera, microphone and other video production equipment.
Editing Skills:
Learn how to edit video using non-linear editing software on a Mac Computer
Local History and Culture including:
local shipping, lumbering, and fishing history * regional sports tradition - snowmobiling, skiing, skating, sailing, etc.
local shipping, lumbering, and fishing history * regional sports tradition - snowmobiling, skiing, skating, sailing, etc.
Social Skills:
Interviewing techniques, scheduling interviews, phone etiquette, etc.
Interviewing techniques, scheduling interviews, phone etiquette, etc.
Real People Media is currently looking to partner with schools and youth groups in northern Lower Michigan and the UP.
Grades: 9 - 12
Grades: 9 - 12
ADULT CLASSES
Documentary Interview
Participants will learn practical tips on how to conduct the documentary interview. Topics covered will include: composing the interviewee, interview questions, interviewee composure, camera and interview equipment, camera angles, and more. The instructor will share and discuss samples of her work.
Instructor: Rebecca Glotfelty
Offered periodically
Community Digital Storytelling Workshop
This two-day workshop integrates aspects of creative writing, oral history, filmmaking, and digital media manipulation to assist people in telling their stories as three-to-five minute digital videos based on the found materials in their lives like photographs, personal drawings and letters, newspaper clippings, video etc. Participants may work individually or as a group to produce a collective project.
