The document is a production log for a stop motion animation project. It summarizes the student's progress over several weeks as they worked to complete the project. They created characters out of felt and pipe cleaners to practice movements. Sound was added to experiment clips. Locations and lighting were tested. Scenes were storyboarded and filmed. Editing the clips together in Premier Pro took time. An issue arose finding voice actors to record the script, so music was used instead. After further production, the student was happy with the completed project using sound rather than a script.

1. Production
Reflection
April-Wimmer

2. 10th April 2018
We started FMP today. I plan on doing a stop motion animation.
The story will be about two 12 year olds who have been friends
for years and they go camping. In the early morning light the
Wildlife explorers come to hear the dawn chorus and spots the
girl hunched over the fire in her grandmothers old wool coat
and bobble hat and gets mistaken for a bear!
I plan on making the dolls out of artist dolls covered in felt and
old clothes to form clothing for them. Everything will be hand
made and all my original work.

3. 17th April 2018
This week I made “piper” this was to practice movements and
to see how the camera would pick up movement and how
much movement was needed. I set it up using a tripod and on
the college desk as it was a blank background.
Piper was made of pipe cleaners and held down by blue tack
as I was only viewing the movements so it did not matter
what the character looked like.
I added sound to my clip. I chose a happy whistling style
song as it was just short and funny.

4. 24th April 2018
This week I plan on focusing my attention to power points as my
props for the main project are still in production. I finished my
research power point after just brushing up my initial plans. I also
continued to fill in my experiments power point.
My 2nd Experiment was a short sequence I had filmed with just my
dolls to show movement and practice lighting so I could see how it
all worked.
Since I was only experimenting I did not book out a tripod so used a
step ladder just to rest it on. I also went out early morning to try see
what the lighting would be like if I were to do my product completely
outside. I decided not to do it outside but wanted to keep the
authenticity of the normal lighting and real backgrounds so I will dig
up some grass turf and plants and use the double doors we have for
the lighting or a lamp, depends.

5. 1st May 2018
This week I am focusing or sorting my shots and turning
the clips into video. I will be putting all shots into scenes
and organising my files. Today I managed to sort through
my images and make sequences. I also filmed my next
scenes.
I exported my videos and made a copy to be more sure
that it saves properly.

6. 8th May 2018
This week I am continuing production on my scenes. I will
be filming the final scenes this week. I also plan on making
the scenes and starting to put them in a sequence. I also
wrote my script. I plan on adding all the clips into adobe
premier pro and adding my script recordings all together. I
enjoy video editing but it will take a while so I need to speed
up production.

7. 4th June 2018
I have not had anything to really write up recently but it is
the same thing just improving, not much to write about and
there has been no other issues, until now. This week, today
in fact, well I needed to record my script but I have lack of
actors. As there are different characters each needs a
different voice. The issue with trying to add it as subtitles are
that the scenes are fast to make sure the movements look
smooth. If it were to just have music it may not have the
same effect but It would be a shame if it was left with no
audio. If I cannot find a way to do it then music, free to
download and legal, would have to do. It cannot be left
silent, but shame about the script.

8. 14th June 2018
Its been 10 days and I have completed production with
sound instead of a script. I was not happy with it at first but
then once I found the right music I managed to put it
together and in my opinion, I like it. Took me forever but I got
there in the end.
I finished up all my power points and talked about my
character design and general shots and smoothness of my
piece.