APD----Week7 'Play and Objects'

Theme: Play and Objects

Context: 1 'Stop motion cooking PIZZA'                                                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUyzi-hK5h4&list=LL0JOKwcaIzZfrk1G9pKEnZg&index=4&t=0s

               2 'Fresh Guacamole by PES | Oscar Nominated Short'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y&t=15s

Both of these examples perfectly demonstrate the entertainments that artists show through objects in life. Using stop motion animation to transform one object into another similar object. For example, changing in volume, number and size and so on. The effect presented by the work is very smooth. Through careful observation, I found that the frame number before and after the change of thesis objects is very appropriate. This gave me a lot of inspiration, but also let me think more about how objects in life can change, and how I can play with these objects through the form of stop motion animation.

Method: the theme of this week is completed by Rui and Qi together with me. First, we identified the objects we wanted to photograph, and found some objects in our daily life that had been transformed, mainly food. We took videos with the software in the mobile phone, and I did the actions. Rui and Qi were mainly responsible for shooting and action guidance.

Response: it actually takes us a while to think about what we are going to use to do this, but we need to think about how we can convert common items into food. We are always thought go changing the shape and mass of an object without changing its colour. We also adjusted these movements many times during the shooting. A lot of experiments were done on the key frames that changed the shape of the object to make sure that each key frame was properly connected. At the same time, in the late dubbing, we focus on the deformation process of these key frame =s for sound processing.

Reflection: through this cooperation, we first overcome some technical difficulties. Everyone’s ideas are valuable, and all of them are implemented in this animation. I think this is the biggest gain. Sop motion animation is really difficult to finish, and we can make the whole process easier and faster after assigning our respective tasks. On the achieve better quality short films, such as lighting, sound and so on. However, this experiment offers a powerful way to understand how we can play with objects.