Theme
In response to the "play and object" theme, I made a stop motion animation. This stop-motion animation tells the story of a male protagonist who wants to become boyfriend and girlfriend with the female protagonist. At that time, the male protagonist was very poor, and he had only one heart, but the female protagonist rejected him. Later, the male protagonist proposed to the female protagonist again with a diamond ring and flowers. The female protagonist agreed to the male protagonist's proposal after seeing the diamond ring.
Context
In this stop-motion animation, the bodies of the male and female protagonists are made of gloves. A stop motion animation inspired the use of gloves to create the male and female central bodies. 【【定格动画】万 物 皆 是 D J-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/WPhos0O and Duncan‘s work https://youtu.be/oLwyRKVRuas
The fingers are very flexible. I can make a stop motion animation with my fingers as the protagonist, but this is a stop motion animation. I have no helpers. If I use my fingers as the protagonist, I have no spare time to Press the camera button, it will be very inconvenient to make, so I thought that using gloves instead of fingers would also have the same effect. The production process of stop motion animation I learned from this video https://b23.tv/rbbUMWh
Method
1 Prepare the materials. I bought some decorations such as colored paper, cotton, gloves, iron wire, etc.
2 To make the scene, I used black paper as the background, made white clouds and snow with cotton, made a bunch of flowers from the colored paper, and used iron wire as the skeleton of the glove so that the glove could pose some movements.
3 Shooting I fixed the phone, arranged the lights, shot one by one, and finally imported it into the computer and synthesized the video in pr. Try not to move or touch the lens before a shot is entirely shot, and try to avoid the lens shift and shake caused by accidentally touching the phone when adjusting the props and pressing the shutter too hard. I choose to use headphones to make the shutter, which can avoid these problems as much as possible.
4 Add subtitles and appropriate soundtrack in post. Due to the time constraints, I thought my work was very rough, but the production process still made me very happy.
Reflection
I think my work is very simple, and this is the first time I have made a stop motion animation by myself. In terms of lighting, I think it is a place where I need to improve because my energy is focused on researching how to make the lens not shake, so sometimes the lighting changes. I don't even notice it. This is what I saw in post-production yesterday. But there is no time for me to adjust, and there is no way to restore the scene. The lesson I learned from this is to check every frame in time after shooting and don't post-production just before the assignment is submitted……
APD week3 https://youtu.be/3MG2OkF3pBw
By Danchen Xu (Dancey)
Email Danchen Xu (Dancey)
Published On: 23/03/2022