Right before school was out I started playing with the app Frame X Frame by JOBY. It is just too easy to use - even I figured it out.
We played with it a bit in class - changing the number of shots, interval and frames per second. To learn a more about what it could do I played with colored ice on watercolor paper. Sounds easy doesn't it? Well, it took a couple of tries. Initially I wanted to try the time lapse feature, but it kept crashing (fixed in a June update?) so I just used the stop motion feature.
I used an organic food dye to color the ice and I was surprised at how quickly it melted. I wet the paper before I started, but the end result wasn't very exciting... just a puddle on the paper.
My biggest mistake was not making more than one dyed ice cube at a time -
So I tried it again - wetting the paper, 'crushing' for texture, changing the interval/frames.
Again - meh.
An accident made it a little more interesting. The next cube of ice shattered (the organic food dye prevented the ice from becoming solid - I will have to test that later) and when it broke in pieces I left them on the paper where they fell.
Results (even I lose interest after the 1:00 mark- but I was playing with it to learn more about the app):
How could I use this in the art room? Easy to capture and share with my phone or touch. I can see using it for demos for the student wiki -
Have fun -
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