About Stop Motion

There are various forms of stop motion. There is stop motion of objects or people and there is stop motion with clay people (more commonly known as claymaiton).

This video is very clever and one of my favorite. The creator took real images (in the same way one would take digital images for an on-screen stop motion video) and strung them together around his house thus bringing the pictures to life and telling a story through stop motion. Very creative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Et7UQh1tg [22/6/10 20:12]

Finished!

I think we just set a world record. We completed an entire project in just six work days! Here is the finished product and please, let me know what you think. In the extended article there is a lot more information about the making of "Gnashing Gnasher and the Green Goo".

Welcome back everyone!

Its been a long time! Firstly, what do you think of the new blog? Anyway, in the past few weeks I have been really busy finishing off assignments and beginning new ones.

Evaluation

As always, nothing goes to plan!

What a great day

I woke up this morning with a dazzle of sunlight and knew that today would me an awesome day, and I was right.

everything is fixed up (almost anyway)

As I mentioned in this post, we lost half our footage and had to re-film most of it. So, today we decided to come in to college early and get it done. We arrived at 10am and finished all the filming by 2 pm. I am very pleased with it.

I also mentioned in this post that our log sheet supervisor doesn't seem to be too interested in the assignment. Today when we had finished filming and wanted to take the sound off our device we had no idea what sound number was ours because our log sheet supervisor wasn't there to jot everything down (loads of pictures to look at on Facebook today!)

Next week I will not be able to come in to college to edit the footage and produce our masterpiece, this wouldn't have been a problem if we would have been on track and started editing this week, but since we had to film this week I won't be able to help with the editing. Oh well, I hope they manage without me.

'Cos today's gonna be bad day....

Today was as bad as a day could get. It all started with me waking up with a headache and a sore throat and things didn't get better.

Health & Safety and Risk Assessment

I started writing this post about a month and a half ago but forgot all about it, and as Health & Safety is integral for me to pass my assignment I though I had better finish it.
I am first going to list all the locations we are going to be filming and then state the health & safety precautions that will be necessary in that place.
    - Classroom

    - Corridor
    - Lobby
    - On the road
    - Outside the lift on second floor

The set up of crime watch

I will now attempt to analyse the Crimewatch setup. I will be looking at transitions, music, shots and zoom, and lighting.

Finished filming!

Last night my MacBook charger just randomly died so I went online to look for a new one and got a shock to find that they are around £30-50!!! RIP OFF!

What a day!

In this here post I mentioned that we were going to be re-filming the second studio scene as both participants in that scene were not very confident with their lines.

First meeting with a 'real' client

"A funny tale of monstrous humans and humane monsters with a one-eyed octopus called Barbara and a mouse called Alan thrown in for good measure. Oh and a little girl called Deirdre who isn't quite what she seems..."

Update on assignment

Ok, just a quick update. We are almost finished filming but we still have the second studio scene to film. We did try to film it yesterday but we had some trouble with the actors remembering their lines. But to their defence, there is a lot to memorise and they had not rehersed with eachother before filming. Anyway, today we are re-filming a scene we filmed last week as we just procured some fake blood which looks more realistic than ketchup!
The last pieces to film are a few establishing shots and some random corridor shots.

Stay tuned.

A few filming laws

This post is way over-due...

My screenplay

Today I wrote the screenplay for the part of the upcoming assignment I will be directing. The first part of the script I wrote alone which was nicely accepted in the class. The second part was typed by me but written by myself and the teacher with a bit of input from the rest of the group.
Below is the script I wrote.

Assignment

Below you will find the Scenario brief we were given for our assignment.

Today we had a group meeting and did the casting as well as the story board. I ended up with the role of Director for the studio scenes as well as the Narrator.

The next job is to start work on the script. I'm really looking forward to it.

Assignment!

I received my assignment today.
Film a reconstruction of a murder just like it is done on Crimewatch.
Stay posted.