Stop Motion project
PRE - PRODUCTION
In this project we created stop motion animations that were based off of the Odyssey Spin-Off we wrote. We first learned how to take different shots and we experimented with making short stop motion animations. We were then assigned partners and we picked a script to use. We had a couple weeks to make a story board and design and built our sets.
THE SCRIPT THE TREATMENT
PRODUCTION
Once we were done with pre-production, my partner and I started to shoot. We spent the first couple of days taking trying to shoot the first scene. We then recorded the audio. We had to completely re record everything again though once we discovered our lines kept getting cut off. Most days our schedule was pretty chaotic, we had no idea what we needed to accomplish each day until we had talked with each other and made a decision. We found it easier to shoot all of Zeus's and artemis's scenes together, and then Apollos. This made it easier later on when we synced the audio with the shots because everything was easy to organize.
REFLECTION
All in all I feel that our final product was a huge success. I honestly felt really proud of our ability to think on our feet. If we made a mistake we would roll with it, a lot of the shots and audio that we used in our video were mistakes but we used it to our advantage and in the end it just made our stop animation better. The biggest challenge was definitely the lighting. Not all the lamp thingys had the same voltage power so it made some of our scenes darker than others. If I were to do this project again I would definitely make sure the lighting was all right.