Animation planning

Group: 

Bethany, Emily,Kylie and Tegan

Story outline: 

Larry works at a coffee shop having a normal day, until a evil ginger dude comes in threatening Larry with a gun, whilst trying to steal some coffee. Alien saves the day and in reward he gets free coffee from Larry.

Background:

Outside Coffee shop, inside coffee shop, and Car park

Character/s:

Larry, Alien, Evil ginger dude, Aladdin

Music/sound:

Pew-pew sounds (gun noises)

Props needed: 

7 cars, 4 Lego figures, paper gun, paper flying carpet, and photos

Aperture

You use aperture to change the depth of field, you do this, by changing the different F stop numbers. The different F stop numbers let in a different amount of light. If you had F3.5, there would be more light, but if it was F22, there would be less light. The bigger the F stop number, the deeper the depth of field, this means that most of the photo would be in focus, but if it was a smaller F stop number, there would be a shallow depth of field, meaning that not all of the photo would be in focus.

My Go!

here, the first photo has F5.6, and the second has F36.
F5.6


F36

Macro and Minatures

Slinkachu:
I like his work, because it is mostly in the middle of big cities, and its showing a mini world, like a beach or a swimming pool with puddles and melted ice creams and things like that.
Also, it looks quite realistic, because he has cut things in half, to make them look like they are in water. Also, i like the way it is showing the city in the background burred out a bit.




My Go!
I like these ones, because they make the little lego men and the car look bigger than what they actually are. Also, if i feel that if i did this again with more figures and equipment i could do it better than this.





FiddleOak:
I like his work, because he takes photos of things and uses photoshop to edit in people, so they look like really small people. I also like the way it has been edited to make it look so real.




My Go!

Research

Nitro Warriors: A Stop Motion Animated Film 
Uses lots of different shot types to make the animation even better. It does this by making changing the different places its being filmed at, and this makes it look like a really good police chase.

Questions:
1. What is the story about? 
     It was but a police chase, and the car was causing all sorts of chaos on the road, then, in       the end the car got wings and flew away.
2. How was the piece created? 
    They used lots of toy cars, and kept changing the camera angles, to make it look better.
3. How have they used a variety of camera shots, angles and composition to make it interesting? 
     They attached the camera to different things, to make it look like you were looking at the car chase from another persons perspectives. Also, they changed the cameras angle when there where loads of police cars, to make it look better.
4. Do you think the animation is successful, how and why? 
      I think that the animations was successful, because it worked really smoothly, and it wasn't just jumping from thing to thing, it did it smoothly, to make it look better.Also, it look good, but a few times you could see wires and things that they used to keep the cars and trains in position, but that wasn't very noticeable. Also, i think it was successful, because you could tell what the story was, and you could tell what was going on.
5. How would you improve the animation?  
       To improve this, they could make it so you can't see some of the wires.
6. How will you use this information in your own planning?
    I will use this, by making sure i make it look as realistic as possible, and i will try to make the story interesting.

Shot type and Angle

Shot Types:
Close up

Big close up

Extreme close up

Medium close up

Long Shot

Establishing Shot

High Angle

Low Angle


Two Shot


Over the Shoulder Shot


Aerial Shot

POV Shot


Canted Angle


Deep Focus


Shallow Focus

Composition

The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts.

The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally.

Studies have shown that when viewing images that people’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally rather than the center of the shot – using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image rather than working against it.

I think that i have used the rule of thirds quite well:

Stop Motion Animation

Learning Objectives:
To identify and breakdown the components of animation and incorporate this into your own stop-motion piece.


I really like Stop motion animation, because i like how you have to take so many photos, and you can do so many cool things with that.I really liked the 'against the grain' one, because i like the way the artist has used the pencils, and has moved them, to make look cool.