Milk Draft Plan

For my next draft I will make a stop motion photography film of a very simple idiom that would be easy and short to portray. I think I'll do 'To cry over spilled milk' but with no deeper meaning than face value. This will give me the experience I need to ensure that my final product is professional and to make sure I know what I'm doing. This film will simply include a glass of milk being spilled, with a character then crying. I think this is a better idea than having a draft with no relevance to my final piece as I previously suggested because it will be more beneficial to me, as I will be able to see the exact process I'll be doing for my final piece.

1st Draft- Room Animation

For this animation I used the normal stop motion technique, of photographing the scene then altering something. I used my bedroom for the subject then photographed it roughly 450 times portraying the movement of it being tidied. I then put all the pictures into a film format so one image would follow another in quick succession. I altered things such as the bed getting made, clothes folding themselves, and CD's being arranged. Even though these are very minor adjustments I feel they were effective due to the detail. I am pleased with the outcome as everything runs smoothly, and there are not many things I would change if I were to do it again. The only main issue I had was with the camera positioning, as because of the awkward angles I used I photographed without a tri-pod. I don't feel this let the animation down as the images were still quite fluid and the jerkiness of the images reflected the hand held photography. However I would still like to experiment by using a tri-pod to see the difference it would make.

First Draft Plan

I have decided to create a stop motion animation using photography, to see how the whole process works. However this will not be in keeping with my theme of idioms as I am mainly interested in seeing the logistics of the process, and so have decided to photograph my room being tidied. I plan to make very minor adjustments between each photograph to ensure that the film runs smoothly. However I don't feel that a storyboard will be necessary for this particular animation as I will see what can be altered and moved around on the day. One of the main things I will be concentrating on will be the amount of photographs taken. I predict that to create a minute long animation I will have used around 400 photographs, and this is the main thing I wanted to focus on as I will be developing these photographs for my final piece.