Completed Stop Motion Video

This is the completed video based around 80's games that was done in larger group. The stop motion complies with the storyboard in the previous post. A soundtrack was added to make this look more like a music promotional video. I think that the video works according to the storyboard upon completion. The placing of the soundtrack works in time with the movement of the games across the board. The thing that I would have improved on is the exposure of the images as sometimes the background, although a good effect, does change colour slightly during the video. I like how the orange straws offset the sweets and the black card.

Stop Motion Storyboard

This is the storyboard detailing how the photographs will be taken and how the objects will be moved around the frame. Arrows are indicative of movement and represent one type of sweet. The dot represents another  type of sweet. With the first eight images the length of the snake indicative of the arrow will grow in length as it eats the sweets, game is over when it curls in on itself. With the second set of eight images the six sweets move in groups of three creating the paddles. the ball, a different type of sweet is moved between them. Game is over when the ball touches the paddles as indicative of the last shot.

Band Identitiy Project - Pre-production

Stop Motion Animation
Stop Motion Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking around today. It's putting an aspect of life and creativity into something that may or may not be living. It is made by taking a single photograph (frame) of an object or person, moving them slightly and then taking another photo. Upon playback the illusion of motion is created. In a way it is similar to the production of cartoons only drawings may not be used. Stop Motion is also used by companies or individuals to endorse a product or service, this is often in the form of a showreel or advertisement. In technical terms the creativity involved in stop motion can consist of many of the types of animation such as; cut-out and collage, clay modelling, time lapse and many more. Regarding music videos Stop Motion is a great way to promote a band or a particular song that you enjoy. It makes the song stand out and can mean, with effective use of imaging and animation, that a certain song is a standout success.

Music Video Treatment
In the video I would like there to be lots of versions of games made out of different sweets. For example Snake that moves about the board gaining length as it eats something and Pong, also made out of sweets but a set number. It will be on a Black background and it will be photographed from above. With Snake there will be different routes, across the board, that it will take but the thing that it eats will be in a set position until it is eaten. So for example snake moves by moving one sweet in front of the other and taking photographs until reaching the other sweet. This will be one frame per move. Snake eats food add another sweet will be added, one frame, sweet moves for snake to eat, another frame, and repeat the process. With Pong there will be seven sweets, three for each paddle and one for the ball, the paddles will move the ball across the board. Photographs will be taken at each move of the paddles and then the ball. With the credits I would like them to appear as a pile of sweets that seaparate with each frame revealing a name.

Prop List
Black Card
Orange straws to make frame
two varieties of sweet
Camera
Tripod.

Stop Motion Animation

This video was created using stop motion animation. This involves taking a single photograph of an object and then moving it slightly and photographing it again. When this is put into a projector or video playback system the illusion of motion is created.

With this video a group of us were photographed moving to different positions on the staircase, the camera was kept stationary on the tripod as we wanted the people to move around inside a static frame as opposed to changing camera angles or moving the camera to an entirely different position. Once we had the images that were needed for the video (they were photographed in order of playback) we uploaded them onto imovie and edited them to make this look more filmic than slidehow. The duration that each image was on the screen was reduced to 0.4 seconds which made a total of over 40 images into a 20 second video.

Album Cover Generation

In order to make this a name for the band was created using Wikipedia's Random Page selector tool.  The name is the article title of whatever Wikipedia selected. As mine only came up with the Burtoni I used the random page selector again and combined it with Ruffs which is part of a place name.

Next the album title has to be generated by using Wikiquote, using the same technique, a random page appears and the last four words of the last quote on the article page become the album title. Mine was "The Aplogies Were Due."

Finally an image is needed to create the cover. For this I used Flikr's most intersting page and used the third image on that page. All three of these were added into Photoshop and the text was added to the image from Flikr. I flattened the image and the album cover was completed.

I think that the combination of the image of the woman and the album title that was randomly generated make this quite effective.