Simplified Lyrics

After debating the plot for our stop-motion, we decided to take Joe’s advice and looked back at our research and decided to over look the lyrics.

Marija read the lyrics throughly and simplified it by picking out the key sentences that stood out most.

We came up with this:

Another life,
Another mind,
Do the stars ever shine out for you?
Float down like autumn leaves,
And you’re miles away ,
And yesterday you were here with me.
Another tear,
Another cry,
Another light lost from your face,
How I miss you and I wish you’d stay,
Stay out and we’ll live forever now.

This helped us think of a more simple plot for our stop-motion, and after looking back at our research, we realized the plot wasn’t really that important, but the process was and how it attracted viewers.

After this we decided to put down ideas on what to put in the stop-motion and how we are going to do it.

I would say this has helped us for our stop-motion as now this is less stressful so we can only focus on the process.

-Leanne

Producing our Final Outcome

Thursday 9th June 2011:

Yasmine, Marija and Leanne was putting together all the clips for our final outcome, we used Final Cut Pro to put these all together.

Meanwhile, Bianca, Natasha and Deanna was experimenting with Photoshop. Bianca showed Natasha and Deanna how to edit photos of Marija and Yasmine. Inspired by a photographer Dan Mountain, Bianca edited a photo of Marija , as a double exposure and added some effects that represents Marija’s character in the plot. She did the same thing for Yasmine. Natasha and Deanna did the same thing , they edited two photos of Marija and Yasmine each. They have also uploaded all the work on tumblr and analysed it.

Friday 10th of June 2011:

We put the clips together and we made final adjustments as our final outcome is meant to be done by today and presented to our teacher and we made sure that out tumblr is up to date.

White room

Our group booked out the white room, camera and tripod to finish filming. Me and Leanne set up the scene whilst Marj and Yasmine got changed, me and Leanne used the green screen as the back ground and we used a tree made out of wood, hung paper leaves and origami birds we didnt use real leaves, trees or bird because out stop motion is based on fantasy, dreams so this links with ‘fantasy’ as it isn’t real. Once we set the scene and yasmine and marj finished getting ready we set the lighting, tripod and camera up into the angle that looked the best. It started off with Yasmine and marj sitting together looking happy and smiling, once we finished that they both started looking through the photo album together of pictures of them. After that we made the origami birds move around marj and Yasmine by taking single shots of each of them. This turn out successful but was also very time consuming as it would only take up to at least 30 seconds of the video.
Tomorrow we’re going to start putting all the scenes together adding in some graphics also as me and bianca are the photographers we will be editing pictures of the models to add to our development this will also tell a story and go with the stopmotion.

-Natasha

Producing Final Outcome (PART 1)

Tuesday 31st May 2011

• Marija ( Main Model)
• Natasha
• Leanne
• Yasmine

We all gathered everyone to meet up at Romford to go to Rapaels Park. Only four people in our group has turned up. We looked at our equipment for this day, the equipment we had was:

• Tripod
• Digital Camera
• Coloured Paper
• Fishing Wire
• Photo Album
• Photos
• Black Pen
• Scissors
• Clear Tape

We settled down in an area at the park, here’s what the location looked like:

After finding our location, we started setting up, so we stuck the photos in the albums (Marija & Leanne) and cutted our leaves out of paper to hang on the tree (Natasha & Yasmine)