Stop Motion Animation Assignment 2

Stop Motion Animation Assignment 2 

For my assignment I have been asked to develop  ideas, plan, prepare and produce my own piece of stop motion animation. This piece of animation will be considered to be shown at a cinema screen at the end of the year show. My finished piece will be at least 30 seconds long and have its own soundtrack. In my piece I will also have credits and titles at the end.

For my animation piece there are many different ideas which I can use, one of these is pixilisation. As in my previous blog, an example of pixilisation is shown below, a link to a youtube video where a man is cutting his hair with his hands, then reverses it.

Another type of animation which I can use is Time Lapse, at the moment this type of animation is the type I would like to make my animation piece on, I have yet to make my mind up on what the time lapse is going to be. An example of time lapse is shown below of a sunset.

At the moment I am thinking of creating an animation piece based upon time lapse either of something being cooked in the oven therefore the time lapse would be for example Yorkshire puddings rising or another example I could put ice cream under hot lights and make a time lapse of the ice cream melting. an example of these are shown below.

I have now decided I am going to create a time lapse on ice melting in a glass, it will be shot on an iPhone 5S which is very good quality. I have made sure that my iPhone 5S has a good quality time lapse option and I have created a draft time lapse from the top floor of Middlesbrough College looking out at the Transporter Bridge as well as cars going past and people playing football. Below is this 24 second long time lapse.

I have now completed my animation however I have not yet edited it or added a soundtrack, the link to the unedited version is linked below.

How I filmed it

I completed this animation task by placing around 8 ice cubes in a glass and putting it on my radiator in my bedroom, I already knew I was filming the time lapse on my iPhone 5S so I then put my camera into time lapse mode and then started filming, I made sure that my light was always on so you could always see the ice melting. It was quite an easy project to film. It took around 1 hour for most of the ice to melt. It is a 33 second time lapse, the soundtrack which is going to be on my animation is Ice Ice baby by Vanilla Ice. The frame rate is 30 seconds per frame. Kieran Atkins helped me with the credits where it says where the music is from as well as the director and produced by Ryan Boston. The ' glitch ' in the middle of the timelapse was me knocking the camera as my phone was running out of charge.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE ).

Below is my finished version, it has been edited and has had a soundtrack added to it, I edited this in a programme called Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, this is a good piece of equipment to use as it is an easy software programme to get used to. I enjoyed both editing and filming this project. I knew that it it is in my best interest to work independently and not just at college. To achieve the highest grade possible I need to produce a stop motion animation with soundtrack to a technical quality that reflects near professional standards, working independently to professional expectations.

For my feedback from my class peers I will use Padlet - https://padlet.com/ryanboston31/ryanboston31


Below are a few screenshots of how I edited my animation.

The sudden cut at the end was very hard to edit, I had to make the most of the time otherwise it would've been even worse however with the