May 19

“Taming of the Shrew” Stop Motion Induction Scene Project

The play “Taming of the Shrew” is written by William Shakespeare. Our group of three did a stop motion project on the induction of “Taming of the Shrew”. Jacob downloaded the app and took the pictures, while Ethan and Dima moved the set and set up the scenes. Our project was just the induction which is the introduction to the main play of “Taming of the Shrew”which is called the inset, the inset is the main play within the play. In the induction of the play a drunk man is tricked into thinking he’s a lord, this leads to the inset. For the project we used an app called Stop Motion where we took lots of pictures while moving the characters which made a video. We also put audio into the video to explain what was going on. This differs from a stage performance because it’s not live and we can edit our video. It was difficult to keep the lighting the same and everything in the same position. We learned how to use the Stop Motion app and how to use Text to Speech to put audio into our video. Overall the project was good and we had fun making it and using the app.