Work Record - Stop Motion

Plans for the shoot 

For this photo shoot I am planning on taking loads of different photographs and putting them together to form a stop motion video.  I know that I can only post this video onto my blog and not have it in my folder which is why I am going to take some normal pictures if I have time at the end of the shoot and also take some outside of studio time in order to have a wide range of photos available to see in my folder.  I am going to put some of the photos that I take for my folder onto my blog as well to show how they coincide with the stop motion video that I am going to make.


Firstly I am going to start with a clapperboard that I have to show the start of the short story.  I’m going to make this fun and have it go from one side to the other like something eating the screen.  I’m going to then add a film roll into the pictures to make a short story that focuses around the film itself.  I’m going to create a mini story and try to make it look believable and interesting. I think that it’ll be interesting and look really good when it all comes together.  The photos that I am going to take on the side is going to represent the final stop motion that I make, which will hopefully work really well.  

What I hope to achieve
I hope that I am going to create an interesting and believable stop motion that’ll work well with the idea behind the shoot.  I want it to be mainly focused on the career that I wish to pursue which is surrounding film editing.  I am going to get this across by using the film roll to make it’s on little story rather than using something else to show it.  I think that the use of the film roll and the clapperboard will be highly effective to get the point behind the stop motion across. 

What I actually achieved
When I started my shoot I realized that my original idea wasn’t going to work.  My plan to use a film reel to create a story however I found it extremely difficult to put the film reel into the positions that I wanted it in because it kept springing back into it’s original shape.  When I was in the studio working on how I was going to overcome this, I ended up using myself to create a stop motion using my feet and hands to create a short story.  I think that this worked well and the final stop motion that I made looked really effective and interesting. I think that I could of thought more about the type of story that I was trying to tell before I went in to take the pictures and thought more about how I was going to do everything, however I am happy with the way that it all turned out so this doesn’t bother me.

What I am going to do next
For my next shoot I am going to look at eyes.  I think this will be interesting to look at because of the multitude of dimensions that eyes have.  I am going to focus more on the editing side of this shoot to try and make the eyes look brighter and more interesting looking.  I am also going to do more complex editing like trying to get light streaks in and around the eye to make it really emphasised.
 I plan on taking photos in the studio and then editing them in photoshop to create the effect that I am hoping to achieve.  I am using many different tutorials that are shown on my blog to try and get the look that I am going for.  I think that this shoot will work out quite well and I hope that the photos look effective when I’m done.