2. BUILDING A NARRATIVE. DID YOU FIND THIS DIFFICULT? Before creating my stop motion animation we had many ideas of things that we could do. I enjoyed the freedom of being able to show our creativity and choose our own summer project. It was challenging at first to come up with my stop motion animation as I was unsure of how to create it but once we had put our ideas together chosen something to base them on it became easier. After considering a number of possibilities, we chose to use the film footloose to focus our animation on. This gave us an idea to base our narrative on.
3. BUILDING A NARRATIVE. HOW DID YOU DECIDE WHAT TO USE? AFTER COMING UP WITH THE IDEA OF BASING OUR PROJECT ON FOOTLOOSE WE THEN WENT ONTO CREATE A NARRATIVE OF DANCING SHOES. WE CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SHOES BUT FINALLY DECIDED WE THOUGHT HIGH HEELS WOULD LOOK BEST. WE USED 4 PAIRS OF HEELS TO CREATE THE STOP MOTION ANIMATION WE ALSO USED HANDS TO SPELL OUT THE LETTERS OF AQUINAS 2011.
4. BUILDING A NARRATIVE. DRAFTING- HOW MANY IDEAS DID YOU HAVE? WE HAD A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT IDEAS FOR WHAT OUR SUMMER PROJECT COULD BE. WE EVENTUALLY NARROWED IT DOWN TO THREE IDEAS THAT WE WOULD THEN CHOOSE FROM; THESE WERE: DANCING FEET USING HANDS AS SYMBOLS (WORDS) MOVING STATIONARY (CREATING WORDS. WE THEN DECIDED THAT WE WOULD USE THE THEME OF FOOTLOOSE AND USE THE DANCING FEET THEN AFTERWARDS WE INCORPORATED USING HANDS TO SPELL OUT WORDS AS THIS ALSO FITTED IN WITH THIS THEME.
5. BUILDING A NARRATIVE. DID YOU WORKING WITH ANYONE? I WORKED WITH ANOTHER AQUINAS STUDENT OUT OF MY MEDIA CLASS. WE WORKED WELL TOGETHER AS WE CAME UP WITH A NUMBER OF IDEAS SEPERATELY THEN PUT THEM TOGETHER AND WORKED TO MAKE THE MOST CREATIVE NARRATIVE POSSIBLE. WE SHARED THE TASK EQUALLY, FOR EXAMPLE I TOOK THE PICTURES OF HER FEET IN THE SHOES AND SHE TOOK THE PICTURES OF MY HANDS MAKING THE LETTERS.
6. BUILDING A NARRATIVE. WERE THERE ANY LIMITATIONS IN TERMS OF RESOURCES, TIME, LOCATION? ALTHOUGH IN GENERAL OUR STOP MOTION ANIMATION WENT WELL THERE ARE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN MADE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE CERTAIN LIMITATIONS. E.G. LOCATION: THE HOUSE THAT WE USED TO TAKE OUR SHOTS DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH PLAIN WHITE WALL FOR A BACKGROUND, THIS MEANT WE ENDED UP HAVING THINGS LIKE THE RADIATOR IN THE SHOTS WHICH MADE IT LOOK UNPROFESSIONAL. RESOURCES: THE CAMERA THAT WE USED TO SHOOT THE STOP MOTION ANIMATION WITH KEPT HAVING PROBLEMS AND WOULD NOT TAKE WHEN WE WANTED IT TO MAKING THE PROCCESS MORE DIFFICULT.
