Evaluation of stop motion

Alice Boden

Question 1. – technologies used

•I used my camera to capture my stop animation, along with a tripod to keep the camera steady and produce the best pictures possible.

•I used YouTube to print screen the pictures of the characters so then I could cut round them and place them into the film with various backgrounds.

•I used Microsoft PowerPoint to upload my pictures, so I could then edit it and add timings so it became a smooth running film.

•Slide share was then used to upload it onto my blog.

Question 2. – being creative

I was able to adapt ‘the cut’ story to make the scene I was working on more interesting and add extra photos to lengthen and also adapt the story to show I was creative. I worked within a group and we each produced a short film with different ideas, and the uploaded them together and it became like a soap trailer advertising ‘the cut’. We didn’t have any problems within the filming of our stop animation as we filmed it in the morning when we had natural light, which was an advantage towards us as the pictures came out realistically.

Question 3. – existing media conventions

I kept the narrative the same as the scene we chose was the character in the bathroom washing his face, I just added extra photos such as the hands moving in and out of the sink repeatedly to add length. The mise-en-scene in this scene I chose was the bathroom, I printed different backgrounds off so that i could use them to place the characters on, such as the sink and the bathroom tiles.