Unit 33.3 (Storyboard&Stop Motion Animation)

Storyboard & Stop Motion Animation

Storyline:

There is a family that live on a farm and the daughter has to go to work every morning so she can provide for the family. One morning she wakes up to go to work, when she's at work she get a call from her parents saying "Don't be late for dinner we have got a surprise for you". So she goes home and meets a doctor called Francis and she falls in love with him, BUT he has got some bad news. He try to tell her but then the door knocks and its Francis GIRLFRIEND!!. She heart broken, TO BE CONTINUED!!

Storyboard:                                                       


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Now this is the final idea which me and my group have decided to do a short stop motion animation

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Evaluation 

Sue has set an assignment which I had to complete within a group, I worked with Alessandra and Raymond It was very fun and interesting. We had to make a short film by using cut out animation. Cut out animation is the oldest form of animation around. It is the technique for producing animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs.

Here are the positive things why people use cut - out animation for example its easy to use, easy to animate, easy to move about, it also easy when you have lots of characters and you want them to talk because all you do it cut a slit by their mouth so it can move up and down everyone you take a picture and you play your footage you can see that its a moving footage and looks like they are talking then all you have to do is put sound effects into the footage.

The negative aspects of why people don't like using cut - out animation are; your only limited to magazines, new papers for example if you think of a story line but you can't find any images to fit in with your animation you have to find a different story line. There is a lot of cutting out and it wastes a lot of time when you could be already starting your video, also once you have done that you have to sit on the computer and press the button every time you move your image a little bit. As I was saying before you can't start making your story boards or story line until you have picked out all of your images. Last thing cut - out animation took me and my group along time to complete because we had to go through the magazine and start cutting out images, putting a story line together and making a story board. But once we finished the main part, we got straight onto the editing, it took us about 20 minutes to edit, add voice overs and sound effects. As you can see our animation is about 30 seconds but it took us 7hours to complete just the first part.

There are lots of animators which have used cut - out animation. For example Terry Gilliam, he started his career as a animator strip cartoonist for children series called Do Not Adjust  Your Set. Also Maya Weksler is another animator that devolved cut - out animation for children it's called Miss Polly Had A Dolly, its a nursery rhyme. Here are some more examples of films, music videos, programmes ' Fonejacker, Bruno Mars (Lighters), RiRi (Japanese film) etc. 

I feel that me and my group's cut - out animation was successful and worked very well because there were no arguments, we got on straight away, we started to cut out pictures from magazines and started to think of a story line which we could of used. We had problems when it come down to the editing because we didn't know whether to use voice overs, speak bubbles or music. So then we just decided to put all three of them into our cut - out animation video. It was really fun working with Alessandra and Raymond and I would love to work with them again, I think we make a good team and I think that they would say the same.

Unit 33.1 Eadweard Muybridge - (Walk Cycle & Stop Motion Animation)

Eadwaerd Muybridge

Eadwaerd Muybridge  was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion , and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

10 facts about Eadwaerd Muybridge

1. Eadwaerd Muybridge was known for his work on animal locomotion.

2. He Changed his name 7 times’s since he was born and was know before hand as Edward James Muggeridge.

3. He was put on trial for shooting his wife’s secrete lover and was acquitted for murder.

4. He is famous for his "Galloping Horse" and "American bison cantering" set to motion.

5. His Animations were viewed in a machine called a zoopraxiscope.

6. He was a photographer at the start of his career.

7. His photographic sequences have been published since the 1950's as artist’s references

8. Canadian poet rob winger wrote muybridges horse: a poem in 3 phrases.

9. He is known for pushing the limits of what a camera can do.

10. He transformed photography and paved the way for motion pictures.

Eadwaerd Muybridge captured motion by setting up lots of cameras to capture the movements of the horse. Then he put all the pictures in a sequence to create the motion of the horse actually galloping. 

He then re-created his experiments over and over again; by using a software called I Stop Motion on the Mac computer. This was very easy for him because he created the horses galloping, so he knew what he had to do to create another movement.  The software which Eadwaerd Muybridge used allows you to take pictures in different steps in a movement then once you play the footage from the beginning to the end. That was just another way that Muybridge made his experiments be re-created.

This is the pictures which he took with the cameras.

 This is how the images got put into one to make to moving movement of the horse galloping.

He also made another moving motion with a male and female dancing. He used a Zoetrope this was a different method which he used.

Sue made the class make a moving movement motion by using the Mac. I used two different ways to make my moving movement motions, I used I Stop Motion and also Photo Booth these are two different software on the mac.

I used the I Stop Motion software first, to make my moving movement motion I sat on my girl and started to spin on my chair slowly, while I was spinning on my hair my friend was taking pictures of me. I went round on the chair 3 times as you can see the first round my hood was on, the second round I slowly took my hood off and the third round I just went round. This is the moving movement motion which I have created.

To make my moving movement motion I had to use 6 cameras on the Mac computers, I used a software called Photo Booth. I walked from one corner to the other corner of the room, as I was walking passed each camera took a picture. I then had 6 picture of me walking pass the cameras, I had to put each picture together to make my picture into a moving movement and this is what it looks like.

Unit (How to label clips and create bins effectively)

How to label clips and create bins effectively

1. First step is to open up Final Cut Pro software 

2.I create a scratch disk 

3.Then I had to import my files onto your timeline

4.Now we are going to start labeling different clips as i go alone to see which ones I will be using,  I needed to 

extend the browser a bit a so I can see many different columns allowing me to do many different things with each 

clips by doing this it will help me remember what clip are good so that if you need to re edit you can go back to the 

good clip.

5.To re name a clip i had to simply right click on a clip that I wanted to re name then typed in what I wanted to call 

each clip 

6. Now I am going to create bins this is another way of saying make a new folder by using Final Cut Pro. So t0 create a bin I had to click on the browser then right click and select 'new bin'.

7. Once I have made a new bin, it will appear saying bin 1, I then had to right click on it, then clicked on re name as you can see I have made 3  different bins and renamed them into Images, Videos and Sounds so all my work can be organized and easy for me to find.

8.Now I have to move each files into the right category for example I needed to put all of the images into the images folder, also do the same for videos and sounds once I have done this I should only see 3 folder in my browser. Highlight all of the images and then simply drag and drop them into the right folder and they appear when I double click on each folders. 9. I clicked onto one of the folders as you can see all of my images have been placed into the images folder. I repeated this system with the sound and video. 10.Once everything is organized into the right bins it should look like this and it makes it more clearer and easy to work with, and its not all over the place as before.

This is how you label clips and add bins (folders)  

Unit 33.1 (Zoetrope)

Today I have leanred how to make a Zoetrope. 

I am going to explain what a Zeotrope is used for and how it is used.
It is a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits in the surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a moton picture.Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.

When you look on the top of the Zoetrope you cant see a patteren, but when you look throught the slits you have the complete opposits view because you can see a patteren and it looks like your picture is moving.

For example:

Sue made us make our own Zoetrope. Watch my little video and you can see that I did it step by step to show you how easy it was to make.