Elementary School Students Become Filmmakers

Babylon Elementary School second graders presented their original film at Monday's Board of Education meeting. The class, led by teacher Marie Poelker and with the assistance of art teacher Patricia Stork and media center librarian Lisa Lindeman, created an eight-minute movie last month using a stop-motion animation technique.

The class was recognized and presented with certificates by the school board in Rowe Hall after the film aired. Each student narrated a different portion of the movie.

In this film style, the illusion of motion is created when an object is photographed in a single frame and then shot in another frame after being moved slightly. After repeating the process hundreds of times, the objects appear to move fluidly by themselves. According to Stork, over 1,500 photographs were snapped to put together the eight minutes of footage.