Evaluation draft

Evaluation draft

For our animation we used the software ‘Istop motion’.  The process of using istop is fairly straight forward however it was finding out what settings would work best for our ideas. For example the amount of photographs to create the right pace (we generally used two) and the focus.  Get the right focus consistently with our varied shots was difficult as the quality of the camera found it difficult to focus on the drawings (despite doing the drawings in marker pens). Another issue was lighting. When we put anything onto istop the vibrant colours became muted and darker. We used lamps and reflectors whilst filming to make it lighter however it still didn’t match the real depth of colour and light.

In editing we used ‘final cut’ witched helped pace our footage better, such as the clock sequence which was sped up, it also varied our shots in the footage we had to repeat by flipping it. Colour corrector was entail part as well because the camera on the istop turned orange at some point which we needed to alter. This proved difficult as it was very temperamental and was very hard to find the exact settings for our shot. It also didn’t help as we animated a sweeping shot (instead of doing through editing) so it also changed the colour of the bright blue sky. Generally, using colour corrector greatly improved the piece as we could make the colours more vibrant and the contrast between whites and blacks greater.

To show our planning we have used ‘blogger.com’. It has been good in showing the planning process as it dates each post and is easy to explain using pictures from the internet or uploading photos.  As I have done the art work for the video it has helped me express my planning process and presents the ideas in an effective way as there is evidence of all the prep work. I also found that when anaylising other videos or look inspirations from all types of film (like when I looked at opening credits ) it is easier for me to explain with being able to embed the footage of what I wanted something to look like or have a similar style with.


Hannah, this is a good draft for this question. You obviously need to add images and you should add more tool terms to it such as how exactly did you speed things up? describe the process. step by step.