Evaluation

I had huge problems creating the stop-motion effect I wanted for my film. Due to a lack of specialist software available for me to use I decided to use the moving film piece of the photo shoot for my main film instead. I sped up the film, removed the sound, and wanted to add the song as a soundtrack. However unfortunately due to various issues with the computers I was unable to add the sound.

I am quite disappointed with the final film, as it is not what I intended to create at all, however I did learn a lot during the process. I also do still have all of the stills from the photo shoot, so if I am able to use appropriate software for creating stop-motion film then this is something I can continue in future.

There are things that I like about the film, as the focus of our shoot was to take the photos for stop-motion film, the video camera was not our focus, which meant that everyone on camera was quite relaxed and acting normal throughout the film. It works quite well at demonstrating the behind the scenes going on of a photo shoot. I condensed around 5 hours of footage into a 5 minute film so it's quite amusing watching everyone move so quickly.

If I was to do this module again I would have started the filming far in advance of when I did, as the editing and trying to fix the various problems that came up took up a huge amount of our time, and left myself, and many other students behind schedule. I'd also have probably gone for writing on stationary objects instead of a person, as the photography for stop motion is very time consuming and it was hard work to get all of the photo shoot done in one go.