Trial Day - Resulting Clips

5. Army walking across the screen

Trial Day - Resulting Clips

4. Army walking towards screen

Trial Day - Resulting Clips

3. Army Rising Up

Trial Day - Resulting Clips

2. Ingredients Being Pushed

Trial Day - Resulting Clips

Having placed the photographs in i-stopmotion, George created five short clips. What amazed me was how long it took to do each section to result in a few seconds of footage.

1.Larger walking across screen

 

Trial Day 9th May - What We Learnt

After shooting the trials, George and I looked through the photos on the camera to briefly see if these techniques were going to work and from looking through them learnt:

Before this stage, neither of us had really thought about the title sequence. When we thought that since the signs are popping up throughout the clip, why couldn't the gingerbread men be holding up our names and the title of the clip? We then thought about this idea further and to keep it simple we thought about postit notes and how they could peel off one by one rather than having the gingerbread moving, which would then mean doing a few sets in different positions.

Trial Day - Wednesday 9th May

Having baked most of the gingerbread men, George and I decided it would be a good idea to begin photographing, just to make sure that our storyline flowed. So, we chose certain sections from the storyline, outlining them in our To Do List:

To make it seem as if they were walking, we stuck bluetack to their feet, swinging them slightly, left foot then right.

In the clip we are going to have the gingerbread men pushing the ingredients, but for the sake of this tester we did it without, just so that we knew at what increments to push them forward each time, ensuring the result was smooth.

Since the sitting position was taken out, due to unsatisfactory results previously, I wanted to make sure that the other way of them standing – slowly rising while remaining in the standing position – was still smooth enough.

Once they rise from the tray there is a clip of the army walking towards the camera, an aspect we wanted to try out.

Finally, because they walk differently to the larger gingerbread men, we wanted to see how the army looked. This took up the majority of our time because of the large amount of switches. It went from the left leg being forward, to them standing still, to the right foot and then still once again. Not only were there a large number of switches, the distance they travelled was minimal, so that requires even more work, after all we would like them to cross the whole screen.