Module2- Character Preformance and Believibility- Experimental Stop motion

 For this project i ws in a group of five people and suggested the idea of light painting as an animation. the objective was to use found objects to create an experimental animation and so we looked at a few videos to inspire us including the 'talk talk advert' and 'light warfare'. we also looked at the behind the scene vide to this in order to learn how light painting was done.

after we had filmed, cut and edited the video we reviewed a few flaws it had, firstly the music was good but there was no real sound that required a dope sheet such as a splash when he dives in to the water and also it was not as smooth as we had hoped. so we set about creating another video this one was to be short and sweet.

The group was sure that we needed a new video but there was alot of discussion about length and  where we could film. i created a story board for a 45 second piece over night with simple movment and speech. Michaels idea to use wire on props so we could get consistant volume when light painting allowed for a much smoother video and even in tight conditions we filmed a small sketch with a day. there were other groups working in the room which ment the pictures came out with akward lighting. this was not a problem for Brian and Beatrice who quickly imported each frame into photoshop and darkened them up. I then put in the sound over night and since Brian and i were so proud of the video we cheekily thought it deserved the 20th century fox drums and trumpets at the beginning. 

this project was very fun to do, but also very hard. i love that i now know a new type of animation and would like to do it again on a bigger scale. 

What is Lght Painting ?

Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. The first known photographer to use this technique was Man Ray in his series "Space Writing" created in 1935. Photographer, Ellen Carey, discovered Man Ray's signature signed by penlight nearly 74 years after the pictures had been taken.

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