Playing Cards 2

Playing cards stop motion with sounds instead of music.

RABBITHAT 2

Rabbithat with sound effects instead of music

Anagrams

Rearranging the letters within a word can change the word dramatically and often become its opposite. "Antigrams" have a more sinister tendency, with a quick shuffle of letters a funeral can be 'real fun'. I decided to write the letters out on separate squares of paper as it was easier and gave a cleaner view than continuously writing out the letters, erasing and drawing them in the next position. If I was to make the video again I would print out the letters giving it an altogether tidier look.

RABBITHAT

This video is loosely based around the classic magic act of pulling a rabbit out of a hat but with an added twist. For this video I drew each element frame by frame separately and then composed each frame in Photoshop. This video took the longest to put together as drawing each still frame, aligning and resizing the images on Photoshop and arranging them into the right composition was very time consuming. For the video I had to plan the movement of each element while considering the movement within the overall frame. Although the video required a lot of effort, I feel it came together nicely in the end and was definitely worth the work!

Stop motion ghost

Originally this video was to be based loosely around the Rube Goldberg machine idea however after a few experiments with this concept it sparked the idea of making a love story around inanimate objects that become animated. The main technical issue was keeping the camera steady whilst also rotating it evenly across the video, this took a few tries to get right as did moving the camera angle up from the floor to the bookcase. I feel using a tripod was essential in making this video. Overall I am very happy with the way the video turned out especially since I couldn't really check the progress until I had took all the photographs as I didn't want to move the camera out of its position.

Playing Cards Stop Motion

This video is based on patterns and sequences, using a classic magic prop. Trying to keep the cards in the same position whilst turning them over and replacing them was important to keep the illusion working, using a tripod helped keep the camera steady and keep the shots lined up. Ideally I would have liked to have been able to use better lighting, however, I took the photographs in the evening so used a mirror to scatter the light more evenly, reducing shadows, although the photographs were still darker than I would have liked. At one point in the movie, the cards all turn to one colour, however, there are 30 cards in the shot and there are only 26 of each colour in a single deck so I needed to use additional cards from another deck.

Pen Story

60,000 photographs were took to make this video and 9,600 of them were developed. I like how it shows a journey through time and how at the beginning the photographs are black and white then change to colour, but even the way they have produced the overall finish of the photos it hints as to what decade they look to be from.