Within our lesson we learnt how to do stop motion, I worked with Kayla and we had to used play dough. Our idea was 2 people dancing. Our plan was to do famous dances, so we decided on the Michael Jackson moonwalk, the dirty dancing lift and moves, when we started it, the initial idea of moving the people, taking a photo, moving a little more and taking a picture was very tedious, but you got used to it after a while. we started to do simple walking with our play dough made people, which was simple but when it got the iconic dirty dancing lift, we didn't really think it through of how the person would be in the air and we take a photo. the puppets were not strong enough to hold them alone, so for a small while they would hold but not when the 'girl' was fully above the others head. As a bright idea we stuck a pencil in the back of the elevating person so we could control it, the outcome was pretty successful, overall, but maybe we should have planned before how we would execute this. Our filming wasn't perfect but we kept the camera straight at all times, and it was creative.
Behind Stop Motion Filming
Definition:
In animation, stop motion animation is a cinematic process, or technique used to makes static objects appear as if they were moving. This technique is commonly used in Claymation and puppet-based animation. The objects are brought to life by breaking up the figure's motion into increments and filming one frame of film per increment.
History:
Stop motion animation has a long history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic. The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph's The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. In 1902, the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the "lightning sculpting" sequence. French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used stop motion animation once to produce moving title-card letters in one of his short films, and a number of his special effects are based on stop motion photography. Now Stop motion is a popular form of creating movies, and as technology is getting better each year, so it stop motion filming.
Examples of stop motion movies:
The Tale of the Fox
Wallace and Grommet
Coraline
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Lost Continent
The Maker
Alice
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