Inspiration

This stop motion film has inspired me and helped me come up with an idea for my final video. At approximately 24 seconds someone moves around in very sudden movements which has given me the idea to use a character rather than objects. I will use the character in a way so that they represent the idea of a robot, I will do this by having them move in a certain way.

Inspiration

Cell Animation

This is a short animation which I created with my group Robin and Eve. We each very quickly designed a character that was simple to draw and we then had to create a storyboard using all three characters. My character is the cloud. 

Here are some of the rough sketches that led to the design of my character.

Further development of my character for my animation.

Organizing the Bookcase

This stop motion video is a great example of how stop motion can link in to the music and can also move in time with the music. It also shows how my using this techniques any everyday object can become interesting and can appear to have a personality.

Research

After deciding that I would like to use stop motion for my final moving image piece I began reasearching by looking at other examples of stop motion videos to try and get some ideas about what kind of thing I would like to do for my own video. While researching I came across an amazing blog that simply posts stop motion videos, so this blog was very useful for me.

welovestopmotion.com

Stop Motion

This is a short stop motion video which I created with my group in under 10 minutes as a way of learning about the camera and software used to create stop motion films. I really like the jumpy effect that stop motion gives and I feel this technique would work very well with my music as it too is jumpy and unpredictable. Robots also move in this very sudden and ridged way, so the techniques also links well to the ideas taken from my piece of music. 

Rayograms

Here are some of the final rayograms I created. I was very pleased with how my rayograms turned out, I mostly used metal objects in my rayograms, reflecting the idea of robots that I took from my music. The nuts and bolts along with the cables reflect this idea well. I also used jewellery as this shows many different size and shaped chains, as my music sounds a lot like the clinking of metal much like the noise chains make.

Here are some smaller rayograms I created, the interesting thing about these is the texture. To create these different textures I used a variety of objects, including bubble wrap, a scarf and a pattern that had been printed onto laminate. When using the bubble wrap I had to give the paper much less exposure time as the bubble wrap looks much more effective that way.

Above are some of my test strips from my workshop in the dark room learning how to create rayograms. It is important to do test strips to ensure that the paper receives enough light and the correct amount of exposure to create a successful image.

Print To Pixel

This is a video of the piece of music that I have to use when creating my moving image. The music starts with quite a steady beat, however after about 20 seconds it starts to become very disjointed and much harder for the listener to interpret what will happen next. Because of this I think I will use the very beginning of the piece, however when producing my video I may change my mind if there is a certain part of the piece that fits better with my moving image.

When I hear this piece I think of robots and of science fiction, as it has a technological and almost futuristic sound. I think this is because it sounds very unlike anything you would usually hear. There are certain parts of the piece that sounds very like a dial tone, perhaps suggesting the idea of connecting to something robotic or out of space.The piece also reminds me of rain falling, especially at the beginning of the piece. I can visualise the rain falling in different places and on different objects to make the variety of different sounds that are heard. This could perhaps be turned around with a variety of different objects falling instead.