When first working on this project we were split into three different groups, i was with Waqar, Ali, Shawwal and Saddique, our team was called Team Alpha, when working on our project we came up of a mind map of what we could do for our stop motion animation. In the end we went with the combination of two ideas, mine and Waqar, waqar idea was to have a fight scene in a disco between iron man and hulk, mine was just a mega fight between an armada of different heros, simple but effective. Once we had our plan we got in preparations for our stop motion away. Ali was team leader, I was deputy and i was also responsible for bringing in action figures as well as sound and editing, Waqar was responsible for the main part of sound and editing, Saddique was responsible for lighting and floor design and Shawwal was responsible for Photographing and background design. The first thing we had to work on before our animation was our scenery, we did think of using the enviroment around us as our scenery and the objects around us as a comical joke but we went with our disco background, when we were working on our background we had the idea to use light with sweet rappers as colour flitters to give it a more disco effect. Once we had our scenery sorted we got to work on the animation itself, the first scene was to be iron man dancing with two lady friends then hulk would walk into the scene and boot iron man on his ass, that scene was suppose to trigger over fight scenes. The second scene was to robotic figures walk into the scene, one of these robots would rip of the other robot arm and repeatly beat with it, this scene would end with hulk smashing down in on the scene. The third scene is spiderman comes flying across the scene hitting the wall then Wall-e would roll in and repeatly ram spiderman (which look kinda wrong) until spiderman punched his head off. When building up our animation we did face problems that we had to compermises with, one of them being that we could use the lights all the time because of the heat it produced, the floor that we stuck our figures on wasn't helping because the floor itself was baggy causing the floor to be pulled by the weight of the figures being pulled when leaning and the camera for some odd and annoying reason it kept zooming in and out which we weren't able to control but it did give a nice affect. When we finished our project we were given copies of our animation to edit on ourself which at sometimes i repeatedly kept going back to slightly edit and improve on. the main bit was already render into an AVI movie, with some scenes we had to speed up to give a normal motion speed as well as repeating some scenes to extend the fight scenes to make it look better (this was part of the plan). The main bit was up and all we had to do was to clean it up a bit and make it look professional. I had an idea for the beginning that was to have an age rating and voice over which i was able to aquire because i would affort about the apporiate age as well as put (techniuqely) a voice over in it and also for a beginning sequence was to have this tranformer come into the scene and tranform into memory stick (which i had, of amazon) and plug itself into my computer and then our animation would show up, we also had a star wars theme title sequence come up with the theme tune of course to say whats what about our animation. Throught the main bit we placed music, apporiate music for the scene, to give it a more disco feeling, which when the scene were and was gonna change i had the music fade in and out. When we were gonna change scenes we did give explanation to what was about to happen. For the end credits i had this idea when i was watching the film Con air were when the credits came up it had the actors face come up with there names and what they did which i thought we could put on our credits as well as some silly little jokes, I also thought of putting a sort of secret ending, not one of those ones that suggest that there is gonna be another animation but just something totaly random.
If i was to compare this stop motion animation to a professional example i would say that we presented in a professional manor but due to the inconvience of the crap camera we had to deal with i would say we were let down in some areas but i would say that we did film quite well.
When we showed our animation to over people they were impressed with the amount of work that we put into as well as how we tried to make it look professional as far as we could form it into and just because was just amazing.
The only thing that i think that we could improve about our animation was to get a proper camera so it wouldn't zoom in & out all the time as well as adding some more scenes of stop motion animation so it wouldn't of seem that we put are effort into one thing.
the only thing that i would of done diffenetly was get a bigger enviroment as well as some over scenes, to me it just doesn't seem impressive considering that we just used one enviroment with different angles.
For me i didn't learn much because i have an average knowlegde of stop motion animation on how it works, how to use it, how to make it as well as editing it on movie maker a part from greater detail on how it started out, how it was made and so on.
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