Assignment Part 2: Stop-motion animation

During the making of our stop-motion animation film, both me and Sara came up with some amazing ideas and creations, the part at the beginning the film where we crumple up a piece of paper and then it open out, I think is really impressive and we couldn't believe how good it looked when we watched that part over once we had completed it. It took us ages to get it perfect as we were taking 3 shots each time, we had to quickly get the paper in the right position and move our hand out of the screen shot to take the image.  To get the paper to crumple like it does in the film took so many shots to make it look realistic.  After doing this we then had to make the paper un-crumple which again took a while to get right and so many shots were taken to complete the whole process even though it looks really straight forward in the film, it was really fiddly and a lot of hard work went into making it look at professional as possible.  Once this part was complete we made it look like the unfolded crumpled paper becomes a fresh piece of paper again.  To achieve this we had to take the crumpled paper and place a fresh sheet over it leaving only a small part of the crumpled piece to be seen by the viewers, we then had the repeat the process by moving the fresh piece over paper gradually over the crumpled piece with one of our hands until the fresh sheet completely replaced the crumpled one.  Every time we made a movement we had to take a shot so the film would all flow together neatly.  Trying to explain the whole process is just as difficult as it was to actually create the stop-motion film in real life.   By this time we were not even half way through the film and we had already taken over 200 shots.