Filming the Stop Motion

As our last attempt of filming the stop motion went wrong due to there not being enough light provided, we changed rooms. The room we changed to produced more light, mainly due to the reason of it having more lights in the ceiling, and also due to the fact that the colour of the walls were white.

We also hired out a few lights in order to highlight our set, gaining us a lighter and more sufficient camera shot. We used a soft box which we located in front of the set. As the soft box was the biggest light, we thought it would be a good idea to place it in front of the set, so it could reflect light straight onto the set, to make it bright. We also used the two lights presented in the picture below. These lights didn't produce a lot of light source, but it was enough to make sure the set was fully highlighted, to ensure that there was no dark images in the filming of our stop motion.

To be able to do our stop motion, we used a digital camera to capture the shots. After using istopmotion in our last lesson, we decided that using the digital camera, would produce a better quality picture, therefore it would look better in our final outcome. We also didn't work well with istopmotion, and therefore wanted to choose a easier but more sufficient way.

This is an image taken of the stop motion footage in process. With Becca in charge of capturing the images, I began to slowly move Barbie to produce our stop motion sequence.