Study Guide

International connections

lectures, exercises, working in groups

Content scheduling

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of stop motion puppet and set building. During the course students will be working in small groups. These groups will function as a production teams that produces a preproduction materials ready for a short stop motion production (duration 2-4 minutes).

This course is first part of a bigger ensemble. It will start already in 18th of January and will focus on preproduction (script development and building the stop motion puppets and sets). Puppet and set building will take place in the workshop in Linnankatu from 22nd of March to 16th of April.

To achieve the best technical and artistic knowledge and understanding of the stop motion technique it is recommendable to take part also in the following course that will focus on animation, lighting and cinematography of stop motion production.

Animation, lighting and cinematography in Stop Motion production -course will start 19th of April in the Big Studio in Lemminkäisenkatu (Lem_B162) and will continue until end of May.

Evaluation scale

H-5