Video Sound and Production VSP0424/Final Project: Stop Motion

Final Project: Stop Motion

05/07/2024 - 04/08/2024 (Week 9-Week 14)

Shao Han/ 0369187

Video Sound and Production / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylors University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Instructions
2. Lectures
3. Exercises
4. Feedbacks
5. Reflections

INTRODUCTION

LECTURES

Week 11: Stop-motion editing workflow 

Please download week 10 stop motion footages (phone & dslr) into your harddrive for editing.

Editing software: Premiere Pro, After Effects.

Stop-motion Editing Brief: Stop Motion Editing Brief

Slideshow:

Stop motion trial shooting: 

Prepare all materials below for week 10 shooting. For the paper cut, please have all the characters, props ready for the shooting. 

Each group has ⅘ members, and only attend ONE hour class time: VSP APL24 final proejct trial shoot

Clay: The Cost of the Call 1st scene: 00:04-00:13

Paper cut: Adopt Don't Shop 2nd scene: 00:19-00:43

Stop Motion Animation filmed with Mobile Phone

Fig1.1 Stop Motion Animation filmed with Mobile Phone，Week 10

Youtube Link

Fig1.2 Stop Motion Animation filmed with Mobile Phone，Week 10

Youtube Link

Shot Photos:Google Drive Link

Final Project: Stop Motion Animation
After the first week of class we were asked to watch stop motion short films and share your 3 favorites under the final project section of the blog.

Stop Motion Short Film 1 : Distortion

Fig1.1 Distortion，Week 1 

"Distortion" isn't only outwardly astounding, but its subject to boot thought-provoking. Through the visual impacts of distortion and twisting, liveliness typically communicates all sorts of distortions and distortions in human psychology and society. Passing on information through visual and sound impacts, rather than depending on customary talk and plot, increases the inventiveness and appreciability of the work, and gives the gathering of individuals more room for inventive capacity inside the handle of understanding the story. Music and sound impacts are immaculately combined with visual impacts to move forward the seeing experience. Each sound is just right, growing the genuineness and submersion of the exuberance.


Stop Motion Short Film 2 : Piirongin Piiloissa

Fig1.2 Piirongin Piiloissa，Week 1

"Piirongin Piiloissa" could be a stop-motion movement full of imagination and essence, and its special storyline is exceptional.The generation group has put a parcel of exertion into each detail. From the character's picture plan, facial expression to the little objects within the scene, each outline shows up striking and exact, after observing, I moreover gradually taste and get it the meaning of this liveliness: the character is in her comfort zone. The drawer speaks to what she is, what she likes, what she does, her standard of living. Something modern came into her locate, but she didn't know what it was. Modern things started to seem in all her drawers. She needed to know what it was, and she chosen to induce freed of those drawers. The drawer on her back spoken to the foremost blocked off insides point. She attempted to approach it from the exterior, but clearly might not. She realized that it must have come from the interior, so she put her hand out of her chest. She saw something modern he required to know, which would rouse her; be that as it may, she still had a divider to break, and she started to do so.


Stop Motion Short Film 3 : Save Ralph

Fig1.3 Save Ralph，Week 1 

"Save Ralph" uncover the remorselessness of restorative creature tests. This animation makes the gathering of people profoundly mindful of the pitilessness and treachery behind the creature try. Animation production technology is exceptionally great, the protagonist Ralph's vivid image, with scars and tired appearance, with his hopeful but powerless tone, animation through Ralph's eyes and expression, exquisite expression of his torment and hope, let the gathering of people profoundly encounter the brutality of creature tests. The story uncovers the brutal reality of creature tests in a thought-provoking way. Ralph's encounter not as it were made the group of onlookers have solid sensitivity and revultion to creature tests, but too activated considering and activity on the utilize of animal-friendly items. The foundation music is delicate and pitiful, setting off Ralph's circumstances and emotions. The utilize of sound impacts is additionally exceptionally great, from the encompassing sound of the research facility to Ralph's monolog, each sound improves the expressiveness and request of the activity. Animation not as it were stirs the enthusiastic reverberation of the group of onlookers, but too fortifies their readiness to act, this social impact is exceptionally profitable.

Week 9: Stop Motion Animation

Filming Stop Motion Animation

1. Pre-production: Prepare storyboards, record each shot, collect sound clips, prepare materials, build puppets and backgrounds

2. Filming:

Filming with phone camera: Filming with Stop Motion Animation App

- Mount phone on tripod

- Use manual exposure and focus

- Film in daylight, but with artificial lighting

- Choose JPEG L/Fine

Aspect ratio: 16:9

Editing Stop Motion Animation

- Can be edited (cut) in Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe After Effects

- Resolution size: 1920 x 1080

Proposal of the Let the flowers bloom:

Fig1.1 PDF Final Project Proposal, Week 11

In the 12th week, I began to use the paper-cut materials around me to make the protagonist tasks and flowers needed to shoot stop-motion animations. this process is very interesting, because I haven't painted for a long time.

Fig1.2 The production of characters,Week 12

Stop-motion animation shooting

We balanced the camera to the fitting position and shot agreeing to the storyboard of the extend proposition.

Since I was shooting by myself, I couldn't shoot a scene with a camera.

Fig1.3 Start shooting.,Week 12

Although it was filmed in the sun, the light transmittance in the room was poor, which made the picture dark, so I used the desk lamp in the room to make up the light.

Fig1.4 Picture contrast after adding auxiliary light,Week 12

After shooting, I tried to import the photos into the AE software of my computer, but unfortunately, my computer malfunctioned and could not recover temporarily, so I used the mobile software to edit the next step.

Fig1.5 The finished photo,Week 12

Stop Motion Editing

Due to the damage to my computer, I began to edit videos on my mobile phone software.

Fig1.6 Add a title,Week 13

Add the theme text before the video to express the central content of the video more intuitively.

Fig1.7 The stitching of pictures,Week 13

Put the photos together in the correct order to achieve the final coherent animation effect.

Fig1.8 Sound effect addition,Week 13

To make the animation more interesting, I added some of the sound effects I looked for from the material library and found a more enjoyable music as a bgm

This step is the most complex part of the video production process for me. I need to correspond each sound effect to the picture one by one to achieve sound and picture synchronization so as not to make the audience feel that they are acting.

Final stop motion video：Let the flowers bloom

Fig2.1 Final project “Let the flowers bloom” video, Week 14

FEEDBACK

The teacher thinks that my story lacks the ending of the final development (the end of the original story is that the girl became friends with the girl who watered the flowers with her), it is not suitable for the theme, and the ending plot can be adjusted properly.

REFLECTION

Making stop-motion activity could be a task that requires a parcel of persistence. Within the long generation handle, it is exceptionally critical to preserve eagerness and inspiration. Each little advance brings a sense of accomplishment.

Stop-motion movement emphasizes detail. Each activity, each expression, and the position of each prop got to be carefully orchestrated and balanced. In spite of the fact that it is troublesome to pursue flawlessness, it is additionally the key to accomplishing amazing works.

Participation and communication are especially imperative in team projects. The conclusions and concepts of each part can not as it were include color to the work, but moreover share the workload and move forward proficiency.

Stop-motion activity isn't as it were a test of technology, but too a appearance of imagination and tolerance. Through this handle, able to not as it were learn a part of commonsense abilities, but moreover develop more nuanced perception and problem-solving abilities. Most imperatively, it could be a interesting way to tell stories, express feelings and share thoughts through liveliness.