Video and Sound Production / Final Project

22.10.23 - 28.11.23 / Week 8 - Week 14
Name: ALYSSA AISYAH BINTI 'ARIEF NASRAN (0364017)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Video and Sound Production (VSP60104) / Section 1
INSTRUCTIONS

  

PRACTICAL

Stop Motion

For the final project of Video and Sound Production, we are to create a stop motion video on anything ranging from either 30sec-1min long, depending on if you worked with a partner or not. I decided to work with my friend Ilhan as we both agreed to work together early on in the semester when briefed on the project.

Originally, we planned to have our story be about isolation and envisioned using a lighthouse to represent that idea since we thought we needed to have a strong narrative with themes, though as we were discussing what materials we could use I brought up with Ilhan that I had a doll set known as "Sylvanian Families" along with a toy kitchen set for them, which gave me the idea use both for the stop motion and to make the story about a mother and her mischievous daughter baking a cake together. From there Ilhan drew the storyboards on what we were going to do and we started planning for other materials that we may need which included clay since we wanted show the baking process. We had also set a date and time to meet and use the studio for shooting our stop motion

Fig 1.0 Storyboard



Once the day of the shooting came, we first set up the kitchen, using cardboard boxes as the walls and a piece of light blue paper for the wallpaper to add colour.

Fig 1.1 Setting Up Kitchen

Then, I started on with the shooting of the stop motion using an ipad and stop-motion app, following the storyboard Ilhan had made. I also created the several stages of baking the cake and some ingredients using clay, mixing around a few different colours of clay to get desired colours and effect to illustrate the baking process, replacing each scene with the stage of  baking with the appropriate clay ingredients/object. I tried to move every object/character in a way that would make sense and flow properly in stop motion, and was careful in my positioning for them since I did not want any sudden abrupt changes in movement.

Fig 1.2 Stop Motion Progress 1

Fig 1.3 Stop Motion Progress

Fig 1.4 Stop Motion Progress

Fig 1.5 Stop Motion Progress

Fig 1.6 Stop Motion Progress

Fig 1.7 Stop Motion Progress

Fig 1.8 Stop Motion Progress


Once I had finished filming everything, I then handed over the unedited filmed stop-motion to Ilhan for post production editing to put everything together, mask out certain unwanted objects in some frames, add SFX, and music.

I have also created a spreadsheet as a guide for the list of SFX needed for the video and have ordered them accordingly to the video so it would be easier for Ilhan to edit. 

Fig 1.9 SFX Spreadsheet

Then I also provided Ilhan with some background music (https://youtu.be/jlXopoG-ZrA) to add in our video so that it does not feel too "empty" and conveys a more cute and fun mood. 

Once Ilhan had finished editing everything, he then sent the files to me.

Final Outcome


Fig 2.0 Final Stop Motion Video "A Sweet Surprise" MP4


REFLECTION

The hardest part of the final project for me was surprisingly not the shooting itself, but in coming up with an idea. Its hard to think of something simple enough to fit into 1 minute, but not too simple that it would be uninteresting and bore the viewer. In working on the stop motion itself, the process was pretty meticulous. You have to have a delicate hand and lots of patience to do stop motion, since the movements are minor, and you must be careful in how you move your object and position it since it has to make sense in movement and order, additionally, sometimes I would accidently knock this over while switching out objects which made the process more difficult since I then had to rearrange them into their last position in the stop motion. The amount of work that goes into one is very tiring and detailed, but nonetheless I ended up having some fun with it. 

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