Stop-Motion Research Evaluation

Human:

For this task, we were asked to make an animation in which the members of our chosen group were using impossible movements to get from different areas. Sadly I was off ill for the filming of this short and so wasn't in the film.

What went well:

-the animation flowed well and didn't appear to have interruptions between shots where there was a movement of the camera or where anyone had moved to the side.

-human animation allows for much more movement to give the illusion of the 'impossible', this was done rather well in ours especially when Joel was surfing on the sign.

What didn't go well:

-The explosion at the end could have been done a lot cleaner as it seemed a little sloppy and a little out of time with the music

Inanimate Object:

For this task, we had to use inanimate object and create a short film making them look alive and moving. I used Lego cars and a Lego boat for this task.

What went well:

-the whole short film was well received and ended up looking very good. There was a storyline that went along with it as well.

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What didn't go well:

-I feel as if the camera moved a lot whilst we took all our photos and made the finished product look quite uneven and jittery. This didn't help with people walking past us as we worked and so we had to keep moving out of the way

-the last few seconds of the animation go quite fast and I feel as if we could have took a few more photos to make it longer.

Lip Syncing:

For this task we had to make characters out of Lego and then stick different mouth shapes into them so when we added audio over the animation, it sounded as if the characters we speaking.

What went well:

-with a bit of fiddling around with speeds of the audio we managed to get it to sync up with the animation and in turn, the completed product worked well.

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What didn't go well:

-as we were using Lego it was very difficult to keep them in the same place without moving them. At the time we didn't think to use something to adhere them to the surface of the table so we had to very carefully stick the mouths onto the characters.

For my assessed esting I am thinking of using the human animation as well as the inanimate object. I feel that by using both, I can include impossible movements from the human whilst also bringing to life inanimate objects.