STOP!!!!

Well all i can say is tat nobody ever looks at this blog.. but that doesn't in anyway play significance to the fact that TODAY, I explored the world of stop-motion for the very first time...

After having watched Corpse Bride the night before i decided that it was time indeed for me to attempt what seems to take hours, if not days and if not days, months and if not months years of painstaking work.

Considering that i had no idea as how to shoot a stop-motion feature properly, the video i've uploaded would probably mean nuts to viewers.. but watever... i had fun shooting it... not so much fun in the editing tho....

heres why...
shooting as i thought was as tough as Hell considering i was not willing to flush out 300 pounds for a Stop-Motion figure, neither was i going to fund a bloody spray set, mold and dedicate the next few weeks of my life to molding Jack Skellington! Instead I found myself spending 6 full hours shooting and editing 21 seconds worth of cow poo...

I grabbed my Horrace, the drawing mannequin that my mum bought for me years ago and made with the shooting...
I decided to do an ad for The BBC considering that it was the least time consuming and nobody bothers with studio ads, thanks to modern technology.... we have "chapter skip".

Shooting took up 149 stills and 244MB of hard drive space.

Editing was a pain in both left and right butt cheeks...
Since one frame makes up probably 1/6 a second i had to re-time and resize all of the stills considering that still default at 5 seconds on Sony Screenblast. The fact that i didn't have Stop-Motion software made it a little tougher.

for the first time i emphasized on lighting... because it was shot in my study room, i had to change the background.... So i made with this black background with enough light illuminating Horrace...


On the job!



and the Award goes to??? Horrace Wimp!!!


Once again i did not have professional tools of even a spotlight so i used two table lamps placed in some odd manner to produce my idea of lighting in this 21 second disaster.


the set

Sound was recorded later, with me recycling most of my props which after being recycled for noise were FUBAR.

but enough jit jat, heres my 21 second disaster... the official BBC ad...



Heh... BUT I wasn't done yet!!! Since I was already surging with Stop-Motion hormones, i decided to do a second video in favor of a friend whos going to sell cupcakes and brownies tomorrow for her Business project-a-mathingy...

So, heres another disaster but slightly longer than the previous disaster... bout 19 seconds longer and.. yes... 130 shots more! I can hear my Hard drive screaming!!!!