Video & Sound Production / Final Project
7/11/2023 - 10/12/2023 Week 11 - Week 15
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Iman binti Kamarudin / 0364014
Video & Sound Production / Bachelors in Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Final Project: Stop Motion Animation
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INSTRUCTIONS
Test Stop Motion
For this assignment, me and my partner first started brainstorming what the
basic idea of our animation would be. We decided to focus it on climate change
and started writing out the script.
Fig 1.1 - Stop Motion Script
After we finished our script, I began drawing the storyboard for the
animation. We were advised that we should cut out some parts so that it
wouldn't be too long.
Fig 1.2 - Stop Motion Storyboard #1
Fig 1.3 - Stop Motion Storyboard #2
Fig 1.4 - Stop Motion Storyboard #3
Fig 1.5 - Stop Motion Storyboard #4
Once our storyboard was done, we moved onto creating the puppet for the main
character and all the props and background. We used modelling clay as our
main medium. For the main character, we used wire and wrapped it with
aluminum foil and then placed the clay on top.
Fig 2.1 - Stop Motion Background & MC
For the wide shot, we made small paper origami cubes and drew on doors and
windows. The background was blue paper with white modelling clay on top to
act as clouds.
Fig 2.2 - Stop Motion Wide Shot
For the overhead shots, we really had to improvise since the tripod we were
using couldn't be used for it, so we DIYed a phone holder so that the phone
could rest and the lighting and composition wouldn't be really affected.
Fig 2.3 - DIY Tripod
After all our clips were shot, we started combing all the photos together
for each scene. Then, I compiled each scene together and adjusted the timing
for a few of them. I also added three different background music to fit each
point of the story, and then put a few sound effects in as well as the
credits.
Fig 3.1 - Credits BTS
Fig 3.2 - BTS Audio Stack
I also had to manually change the colours of a few scenes to match when the
sky turned yellow by adjusting the colour wheels.
Fig 3.3 - Adjusted Colour Editing
Final Stop Motion
Youtube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXh4FEaMdn4
REFLECTION
My experience with this assignment was okay. I really don't enjoy creating
frame by frame animation in general because of how tedious it is and it
was worse trying to make a stop motion animation because it required us to
really be careful not to change the focus on the camera and we had to make
all the props. It was really difficult moving the puppet without smushing
all the clay together and also trying to make her stand up by herself
without falling in time for us to take a picture.
I observed that you should invest in a pretty good tripod that can handle
any challenges and that is able to fulfil the kind of clips you want to
shoot.I found that modelling clay is really, really waxy and sticky and if
you leave it on paper for a while, all the oil will just be extracted from
it. Furthermore, we were kind of limited in terms of colour choices with
the clay.
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