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Stop Motion

Short Film

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It was a challenge to come up with an idea for this short film, eventually I thought to do this, which I thought I could have a little fun with, aswell as show different camera shots to communicate the story. I chose to add music, which I think enhances the video's qualities.

The Moving Image

This gif is meant to show the result of the 2012 Champions league final,the first champions league that Chelsea won, against Bayern Munich. 

A man escaping enemies

1. Be aware of the brightness and use lighting that you can recreate in the exact same way when you resume taking pictures, otherwise you will have differing lighting from scene to scene.

2. Be careful not to move the camera or scene while collecting the pictures.

3. More pictures is better, the movement in the scenes will be smoother and more life like if time is taken to slowly move the parts in more frames.

Tips

Story for Claymation 

 

 

The lumberjack gathered his gear and headed to the thick forest on the outskirts of the town. He woke up that morning thinking that he might make some easy money on his day off from his job at charter forestry. He figured that he would go to the forests that surround his town and cut down some thick high quality trees and sell them on his own. Driving down the road he was thinking about how much money he would make and what he would do with it. When he reached the outside of the town, he parked his truck on the side of the road, gathered his chainsaw, ax and other gear and headed into the forest. He walked and walked until he found a tree that he thought was suitable. Our lumberjack, cut down this tree. Soon that tree turned into another tree, and another, and a another. The greedy lumberjack cut down many trees that day. The sun was now going down and the lumberjack was filling up his trailer with his wood. He stacked the last log on the pile and took count of his items. He realized he had forgot his chainsaw. Lumberjack  went back into the forest and got his chainsaw. While he was searching for his chainsaw, he began to hear noises in the forest, they unnerved him, but he is a grown man, and this did not scare him. While he was walking back to his truck he was ambushed by a clan of bears. They threw him across the forest floor and roared at him. They did not harm him, they only cried for the loss of their forest. The lumberjack realized his error, and went back to make peace with the bears and planted saplings so that the forest might come back one day.

 

What is stop motion animation? 

 

 

A technique used to make stationary objects seem as if they were moving, through image capturing

 

Examples: 

 

-www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSzCLf8tjP4- Magic Water

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUtEtUD-sSg

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDJQoUdTuk

 

Those stop motion animations are done very well and the movement is very fluid, and detailed, that's why I find them interesting. 

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