Video & Sound Production // Final Project

 29.08.2022 - // Week 1 - week

Lim Yi Xvan 0354552

Bachelor of Design in Creative Media 

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Instruction

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Final Project: Stop Motion

Week 1

In week 1, we were instructed to watch stop motion shorts and analyse the style, art direction, character design etc of 3 shortlisted ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y

This is the most classic stop motion clip I think. It’s super interesting as you would never expect what is inside of another and what object will appear next when the one being sliced. The break point is perfect, fits super well.

https://youtu.be/qBjLW5_dGAM

This is another stop motion film by PES. It is a cooking film using unexpected objects too. Very fun and interesting to look at. The break point for each scene is fit in perfectly too. A cool one to refer to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2lsdXJQ40

This one is really impressive in so many aspects. The material it used, the details of the objects, the transitions. Especially on the packing luggage part, the objects movements are so cool and smooth. There’re so many details brought out in this video which is really thoughtful of the author.

Week 10

Stop Motion Test Shoot

We were being assigned into groups and carry out a testing shoot for stop motion so we could know and learn how does it actually works and what should we take note when filming it. We used both equipment, phone camera: the stop motion app and camera lens.

This is how it looks like being shoot in phone lens from the stop motion app. 

fig 1.1 - stop motion test shoot (stop motion app)

Mr. Martin told us the disadvantage of using phone lens is that it doesn't help smoothen the surface of the object also the pixels and quality might be not as good as camera lens. We can see that the dough surface is very rough and colour is not corrected.

However, it is time saving and convenient for those who doesn't have a camera like me. I'm using the app for my final project too.

Stop Motion Proposal

We were asked to write a proposal draft for our topic for the stop motion. So then, by the shooting time we get to save time and have a clear direction on what we should do.

fig 1.2 - stop motion proposal

Behind the Scene

The BTS looks a mess as you can see from pic. The props all were done by hand and some I even drew them and cut them out. The main character used was a crochet toy. I am using a Iphone 12 Pro camera lens to shoot this.

fig 2.1 - bird eye view of bts

Here are some detailed pics of the props I made and scenes for the shoot which are home, outside and office, enjoy!!

fig 2.2 - details of props

fig 2.3 - scenes for shoot

Some shoots are being shot separated. Which are the captions at the ending part and the clock tickling scene.

fig 2.4 - frames used for main clip

fig 2.5 - frames used for captions

fig 2.6- frames used for clock tickling

Totally 389 frames were used.

Editing in Premiere Pro

I then import the video into Premiere Pro to do some color correction, apply sound effects, adjust speeds for some frames. I wanted the clip to be a very soft and saturated vibes so I used the below adjustments for each of the scenes and clips. Some variables are being customised due to the lighting difference.

fig 2.7- adjustment variables

Some video transitions like dip to black, dip to white etc was used to create a smooth transition for the clips. I also added a black border around so it has a cinematic vibes.

Submissions for Stop Motion:

https://youtu.be/PcMasKCA8AA