2. How did you use technologies to create your product?
3. Research and Inspiration… I used You Tube as a form of research for some ideas for my stop motion. Some very advanced videos came up, however some that were able to be produced by A-level students. I watched a jelly baby one which then gave me an idea of using Smarties.
4. How I created my Stop Motion… To create my stop motion I used a lumix camera to take the individual photos, unfortunately I did not have access to a tripod, however I still used the camera to the best of my ability by keeping it very still. Once taken my photos, I uploaded them to my computer, then loaded them into windows movie maker where I then dragged my photos onto a timeline. Each individual photo lasted for 00:00:00:72 seconds long, so I clicked and dragged each photo to trim the clip. This took a while but I think this is a great piece of software to use when doing a stop motion. I then saved it as a movie where I was able to publish it to You Tube.
5. Uploading my Stop Motion… After uploading my stop motion and converting it into a movie, I then uploaded it to a website called Slide share. Firstly I had to create an account. Whilst my slideshare was uploading my file, I had the ability to change the title of the slideshare, pick a category and add a description.
6. Embedding my Stop Motion into my blog… After uploading my stop motion into slide share I had to embed the animation into my blog. To do this I went onto ‘ New Post’ which then brought up a new window which allowed me to insert a HTML code for my video. I then had to return back to slideshare to copy and paste the EMBED code into my blog where I can paste it as a HTML. After I copied the code into my blog, and published the post, it appeared in my blog.
8. Deciding what to use… I found it quite difficult deciding what objects to use for my stop motion. Originally, I wanted to draw out stick men and stick them to card and hold them with string. However, I tried this and it was too difficult as the stick men were not weighed down therefore they moved everywhere on their own. Another idea I thought of was post it notes and making a picture and taking and bringing them away to make an image, however I realised this would of took a lot longer and I had no access to post it notes. Therefore, after carrying out research on You Tube the idea of jelly babies I thought was very clever, so I produced similar with smarties. These were easy to work with due to them having a flat base on a surface and were very easy to move around so I was very happy with the choice of object.
9. Drafting and building a narrative… When deciding on my narrative for my Stop motion, I already had a general idea in mind, which was to do some sort of ‘dance’. However, with smarties this was quite difficult as they just looked as if they were moving, whereas if I would've used jelly babies they would have been able to stand up and move around properly, however I didn't have access to these. I still built a narrative by bringing each smartie in one by one out of the tube etc. I thought my idea turned out quite well considering the problems and the difficulty it was to move the smarties around.
10. Working together… On this occasion, I decided to work on my own as I think I work better alone as I am able to get on with the work without distractions and the person who I asked to work with me wasn’t available to do so. However I was happy working alone, I work to my best ability and I can come up with some good ideas.
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12. Overall, it took around 2 hours to create my stop motion, including the process in Movie maker. If I had longer, I would’ve made sure I had a tripod, and a more appropriate item to work with.
13. I had to find a flat surface to make sure the smarties did not fall anywhere. I chose my kitchen worktops as this was the most flat surface I can find and the smarties stood out due to my worktops being black.
