Week 8: Stop Motion with Music and SFX

Craft: The video was made using a SLR camera for the photos and Adobe Premiere to combine the photos into a video. The document first needed to be organized to insure all 300 photos were found in one place and extra items, like the bumper could also be located. The duration of the still images had to be controlled in Premiere so that the animation would run smoothly. After some difficulties and experimentation, I set the still image frame rate to 4 images per second. The music was created in Garage Band and I pulled royalty free sound effects from the website www.freesfx.co.uk/.

Concept: I wanted to create a variety of forms from clay in this video.

Composition: Each of the 300 photos demonstrate a different motion in the clay so the scene would progress in the composition. What made the composition different was the addition of music and sfx to convey the actions going on in the animation.