In this session, we were joined by a visiting lecturer Rachel Davey, who ran a stop-motion animations workshop. Our session had three different parts. First, we had a look at Rachel’s work and some examples of stop motion videos and technical tips. Then we were asked to come up with a concept for our own animation which needed to explore the idea of a circle turning into a square. With the materials given and our class already set up as a studio. I wanted to photograph an ice cream cone which when melts turns into a square shape. I ended up making a square-based circular ice cream glass with a straw. So when the liquid disappears from it the square shape appears.
I learned a lot in this session as I never made a gif animation before. My final work did not work out how I imagined but it definitely made me realise that lighting is really important and also that for my final sound and vision project I have to do test shoots before I settle on an idea.
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