Luke created a 30-second stop motion animation that took over 2,000 photos. He found the process more difficult than expected. His animation depicted a stick figure watching TV and entering the TV screen. Luke is pleased with how his character "Timmy" turned out but notes weaknesses in his drawing skills. He also had issues with camera shots capturing parts of the table. While happy with his editing skills, Luke feels he could improve his planning, drawing, and sound design for future stop motion videos.

1. Luke Smith
Evaluation
1) In my proposal I put that my stop motion video will be 2-3
minutes long but I only did 30 seconds because it was harder
to create than I thought it would be, as I had to take more
photos than what I thought I had to take. I took about 2
thousand photos just to do 30 seconds of animation.
In the end I did a stop motion similar to Maker vs Marker
instead of the parkour version because I knew it would be
easier to do because It only takes one parson to draw and
make and for the parkour I will need some other people to
help do it and I don’t think the school would have the correct
equipment I would need to do it because I would need a very
tall tripod to get the pictures I would need. I also put in my
proposal that I might use play-doh but I decided not to use it
because it would be harder to create using the play-doh and I
would rather draw with a pen and a white board to create my
stop motion.
I have made a stop motion
similar to this picture on the
right but I haven’t gone into
loads of detail with the
characters apart from my last
character at the end called
“Timmy”. With the maker vs
marker there is so much
detail on the character and I
can’t draw very well unless I
look at a picture.

2. Luke Smith
The weaknesses I had with making the stop motion is obviously the
drawings because I drew stick men and kept the stop motion very
simple until the end when I drew the character called “Timmy”.
This is the original stop motion I
saw on YouTube and the stop
motion was called “stop motion
cartoon- Timmy”. I really like this
little stop motion video because it
was made with a lot of detail and I
think it was made a different way
to what I did to make my stop
motion video.
This is my drawing of the character
“Timmy” in m stop motion animation.
My weakness of drawing this was that
I had the eyes and nose out of
proportion and in the wrong place on
his face and I did a few attempts to do
my best to get the hands in
proportion.

3. Luke Smith
The target audience for my stop motion video is children, teenagers
and adults because it is a video for all ages.
2) For my research I did for my stop motion video I watched
Wallace and Gromit behind the scenes on YouTube to see
how they created Wallace and Gromit, this is the research I
did on Wallace and Gromit.

4. Luke Smith
For the planning of my stop motion video I used inspiration mind map
on the genre I would do and what editing software I would use to
make the
stop
motion video, this is my inspiration mind map.
For the time management for making and editing my stop motion was
out of time because I didn’t do some of the different scenes and I
thought I would only need one double lesson to record all of the
different scenes and it took me about 18 lessons to record which is 16
lessons longer than I intended to use to record my stop motion video.
All of my camera angles were birds eye view because of the size of
the white board I was using but for my last scene of the character
“Timmy” I did a close up because I used a bigger whiteboard and I

5. Luke Smith
found that it would probably of been easier to use the bigger white
board throughout the recording of it because It was easier to draw
and it was a lot quicker to set up the camera, tripod and white boar
instead of looking for a white board and pen around school, in the
video when I was using the smaller white board you can see the
sellotape that was keeping the white board to the table and I couldn’t
crop all of the sellotape out because I drew so close to the sellotape
because I didn’t have much room to do all of the drawings I needed
for the stop motion video. This is my shot list table example script:
Shot
Number
Shot
Type
Camera
Movement
Location Sound Detail
1 Birds
eye
view
none school Drawing Opening of
the stop
motion
animation.
2 Birds
eye
view
none School Drawing Drawing the
stick man.
3 Birds
eye
view
none School Drawing Animating
the stick
man
4 Birds
eye
view
None School Sound of
t.v.
Stick man
watching
T.V.
5 Birds
eye
view
None School Sound of
t.v.
Changing the
channel and
goes into the
T.V.
6 Birds
eye
view
None School Aniamtation
of the
stickman

6. Luke Smith
inside the
T.V. channel.
For the budget part of making my stop motion (all of the equipment I
need) went well because it would be free as I used the schools
camera and all of the equipment. The equipment I needed to record
my stop motion was a canon 1100d, tripod, white board and pen, as
the school had all of this equipment all I needed to do was borrow it
in the lessons to record it.
For all of my sound effects I put “if I use any music in my video I will
need to find the people who own the copyright because I will need
their permission to use their music in my video”. All of my sounds I
used was what I made using a sound recorder but I had to use two
sound effects of YouTube and It was a bomb sound effect and a
Scooby doo sound effect.
3)

7. Luke Smith
I am pleased with this part of my stop motion video because it took
me a while to draw this picture because I couldn’t get the hands,
eyes, mouth and nose In proportion because I find it difficult to draw
photos but I copied a video I found on YouTube and done a screen
grab and printed it off (this is the video I found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawz8Dh0eLo ). Feedback that I
have had from other people in my class and in my tutor is good
because they were astonished by how many photos I took to do this
stop motion video.
My strengths of making this video is that I know the basics of editing
videos using adobe premiere pro but I think that my editing skills
could be improved by getting better shots with the camera so I don’t
get part of the whiteboard and sellotape in the shot because I can’t
crop it out as I will crop some of my drawing out and I want all of my
drawing in my stop motion video because it will only tell half the story
I want to show in my video.
A bad part of my stop motion video is this because I think it looks
rubbish and it doesn’t look very good because it is meant to be a
football game on an
old styled television.

8. Luke Smith
I am verypleasedwithmyendresultonmakingmystopmotionanimationfilm,Iwas
hopingtohave made my videolongerbutittookmore photosthanwhat I thoughtIwould need
because of the speedthe videoneedstogo. I thinkmyweaknessesof makingthe videowasthatmy
shotsweren’tperfectandIgot parts of the table inmyvideoandI thinkI rushedintomakingit
because IthoughtI wouldonlyneed1double lessontorecorditbut I tookabout 15-20 lessonsto
record itand the scenesIwas originallygoingtodokindof wentinthe binbecause I justdidshots
whatI thoughtwoldlookgoodin the videobecause Ididn’tthinkIwouldbe able todraw some of
the differentscenesIhadplannedtodo inmy original ideaof makingmystopmotion.Ithinkthat
my strengthsof makingmyvideowasmyeditingskillsbecause of the amountof photosIwas using
(around3000 photos),soundeffectsIusedformy stopmotionvideo like soundrecordingmyself
write toget a scribble soundandthe croppingof my photosbecause Igot parts of the table inand
sellotape thatwasholdingmywhiteboarddowntothe table sothe white boardwouldmove when
I’mdrawingand takingthe shots because youwouldsee thatthe white boardismovingslightly
whenI putthe picturesintothe video,myfirstshotthat I did,wentwrongbecause Ididn’tholdthe
whiteboarddowntothe table withblue tackor sellotape sowhenIputmypicturesonadobe
premiere proyoucan see the whiteboardismoving.
If I wasgoingto redomy stopmotionanimationIwouldspendmore time drawingmypicturesand
not dostick men,tryand get a bettershotwiththe camera soI onlygot the whiteboardinthe shot
insteadof havingsellotape andpartsof the table In the shotand I woulddoa bitof researchon
soundeffectsandhowto make the soundssoundbetterbecause mywritingatthe start of my video
didn’tgowell withwhatishappeningonthe video.
If I wasgoingto redomy openingscene Iwouldtryandget all of my writinginproportion,notto
have the writingslope downthe whiteboardandIwoulduse myfingertoshow the writinginstead
of me holdingapenand writing.Ithinkthatmy besttheme of mystop motionvideowasmylast
scene withthe character “Timmy”.