Assignment Part 2: Stop-motion animation

We have finally nearly finished our stop-motion animation and we have taken nearly 4000 shots to get to the final stages.  The most difficult part was creating the paper origami moving game or fortune teller as some people like to call it.  We thought the initial process of making it would look great in the film as there is so many parts and paper folding required to make it.  This was the tricky part, and took us a very long time to get reach shot and image right.  Once particular part of making it involves tuning the folded piece of paper over onto the other side and as we had to try and make this movement without our hand being in any of the shots it proved to be such a difficult procedure to do.  We tried absolutely everything we could think of, holding the edge of the paper with the tip of our fingers slightly out of the screen, but this failed as in every shot you could notice our hand or finger.  We tried putting objects behind the paper, gradually getting bigger ones so the paper would rise, but once it got to a certain height you could see the object underneath in the camera screen.  After trying all of these we decided to attach some string to paper to lift it up and twirl it around,  this worked brilliantly but the only problem we had was you could see the string in the camera.  Our final and last attempt at this was to pull a piece of my hair out and attach this to the paper to pick it up and turn it around, how we came to think of using my hair I don't know and its really funny to think that it actually worked.  

Everything seems to be coming together nicely and we have been able to include a lot of useful quotes and information about recycling into our stop-motion animation.