final evaluation

In this assignment i was asked to produce a stop motion animation made from single images taken on a camera. Along the way i researched stop animation right from the beginning with Eadweard Muybridge. I looked into flip books, zoetropes and other homemade stop motions to inspire my work. I have used a variety of equipment to help me along with learning new techniques. I have learnt how to take a stop motion aswell as producing it into a movie in final cut pro. For my final movie i created one on location. This movie is of 2 girls playing on the park. I really like this movie and think it turned out really good. However i don't think the music accompanying this is the correct choice. When doing this again i would spend more time choosing the correct music as this is a big part of any movie. I also played around with the idea of various people appearing and disappearing behind a tree. However once made this did not look as good as first planned. The main problems i encountered with this assignment was trying to get the speed of each frame correct so the movie became a fluid movement. This was finally achieved through trial and error and now i I'm confident in using this process again. Overall i am happy with all the movies i have produced in this assignment and i have enjoyed studying and producing stop motion.