Video & Sound Production: Final Project
28/9/2023 - 30/11/2023(Week 5 - Week 14)
Seh Zi Qi/ 0355872/ Bachelor of Design(Honours) in Creative Media
Module Name: VSP0823/ Video & Sound Production
Final Project
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Final Project:
LECTURES
INSTRUCTION
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Final Project - Stop Motion
"Students are required to produce stop motion video by a given theme. Voice-over, sound effects and music can be used, to tell a compelling story."
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Process
Before starting our project, we had to choose if we wanted to do the stop motion by ourselves or with a teammate and I decided to ask my friend, Elysa Wee, to be my teammate since we both had the same ideas and it would be really cool to see what we can produce.
Once we were done with choosing, we used the Google Doc that Mr Martin provided as our drafting for the stop motion we were going to do. We started by brainstorming with different ideas but we decided on doing a night of the life of a Genshin character and the only person with a night schedule would be Diluc Ragnvindr.
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| Fig 1.1, Sypnosis for stop motion, 10/10/2023 |
After that, we went on to find visual references for our stop motion. We considered doing claymation but it would be quite hard to make it expressive therefore we settled on paper stop motion since we can either make puppets or draw hand draw frame-by-frame scenes for better control of the overall look.
Eventually, we came up with a storyboard. I drew the first 6 boxes but then decided to let Elysa do the rest since I needed to prepare the drawings for each scene as we both decided to do frame-by-frame paper animation.
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| Fig 1.3, Visual reference for stop motion, 17/10/2023 |
Afterwards, we split up the tasks. I did the drawings and stop motion in my house while Elysa did the editing and finalising of the stop motion. Another notable mention would be that Mr Martin advised us that maybe instead of creating the backgrounds ourselves, we could just use the in-game backgrounds instead as that would save a lot of time and effort with our time constraint.
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Final Stop Motion Video
Google Doc Submission:
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/4IGrQ-dRFQE
Fig 2.1, Final Stop Motion, 30/11/2023
Fig 2.2, Google Doc draft PDF, 30/11/2023
REFLECTION
Overall, I think this project made me appreciate the hard work and patience that stop motion animators even more. The thought process and placement of the animation can take a long time because any mistakes made during the filming can be seen when you're done; this has frustrated me a lot because I didn't have good lighting and it made the scenes look different which lead me to redoing most of the scenes just because of that alone. Although it is frustrating to work with, it was still fun to make my very own first stop motion, as it gave me the courage to use this experience to do better next time if I ever wanted to try it out again.
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