We decided a couple of weeks ago to add a stop motion to our film project which I mentioned in the previous blog...I think. So it became my task to make it. I borrowed a mac, a decent camera and a tripod and set to work. The idea was fairly simple, for me to draw the urbis and photograph it in various stages and at regular intervals. For first attempt I used the time lapse setting on the programme I can Animate, so a still was taken every 15 seconds and I could draw freely. I set myself up on a drawing board with lighting behind and above me so I could see what I was doing. The entire drawing took just short of two hours. This sort of worked apart from I was featured too heavily in the final film and I didn't want that!!! So for the second attempt I moved away from the drawing board on to a flat surface, set the camera up above me instead of behind and used natural light. This time I decided to manually take photographs after completing part of the drawing. This attempt took three hours and 300 frames, a bad back and a cramped hand but was much more successful. However, being the perfectionist that I am I have found fault, the use of natural lighting caused the lighting to change subtly in virtually every photograph and because the surface was not as solid as the drawing board in the original shoot the drawing shifts slightly in every frame too! One more attempt and I will have it perfect.
Other than stop motion I have been looking in some depth at property programmes to see how architecture is filmed and also how architecture is photographed in magazines and books to give us a clearer idea for our filming (which is why I have been bookmarking random pictures of buildings on delicious). And finally I have been continuing with my sketchbook and making some progress with my reflective report!
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