Stop Motion Animation Practice Eval

Task 1:

Our first "Stop Motion Animation" project was "The Bottle Flip". The most difficult part of filming this task was the beginning when the bottle hits the railing and drops onto the cone. We struggled to find a way to get the bottle in frame mid air to make it look like it had been thrown. In the end we changed the angle so we see the initial throw, then when it hits the railing, then the cone.

The part I feel works the best is the later part of the film, where the bottle falls off of the emergency door and rolls across the ground. You can see that it is a series of still images, however the bottle itself looks as if it is moving constantly, and the slight change of light on the ground, the way the shadows fall, makes it feel as if it is moving faster that it is.

Unfortunately we did misplace the ending of the animation which had a character picking up the bottle and throwing it in the bin, however I don't feel like this took that much away from the film and it was still a fun and useful experience.

Task 2:

The second stop motion project we filmed was a task involving inanimate objects. I worked with Luke Robbins to create a short "Indent" using Lego and a green screen. I feel like what worked the best was the way we managed to get the camera movement starting below the table, then slowly panning up to reveal the pig and the car. Unfortunately, this was pretty much as far as we got as we have not yet had the time to edit the "footage"