Entry 4- Istopmotion and more videos

This lesson, we were supposed to be talking about the istopmotion on the computer, but it sadly didn't work as the frames kept on appearing flipped on the overlay layer. Mr. Powell tried fixing it for the first 20 mins but gave up soon after we tried almost everything. It was kind of weird, as when we took the photo, the frame appeared like it should. 

However, at the start of the lesson, we talked a bit about the setting up of the istopmotion. When loading frames, there're options where you could choose how big the screen you want it to be. The options that are best recommended are large and large widescreen as others would appear blurrier when stretched as a whole screen. Mr Powell personally recommended large widescreen, as Large was a bit narrower. There was also an option where you could choose how much frames you could choose. Mr. Powell once again recommends 12 FPS for a slightly smooth movement as there's more frames, unlike using 10 FPS as used in animation-ish. According to Wikipedia, Disney used 24 frames per second, which is impressing considering the fact that they didn't use computers back then and hand sketched them all. We also talked a bit about using another portable device to take photos. 

After that, we watched some example videos. 

The one that Mr. Powell wanted to show first was 'Just The Way You Are' by Bruno Mars. That song came out a few years ago and was highly popular for its use of cassette tape. Apparently, the video didn't use only cassette tape, but rather markers and cassette tape to get into detailed areas. Mr. Powell told us that there is a chance where they used photoshop and high contrasted them to make them appear black and white and add it into the video. This method can also be used when a person jumps into a comic book, where the video can be exported into photos and to a filtering app that makes it cartoon-ish. 

We then went to the official istopanimation site and saw some recommended video. The first video was a small car racing another car in a normal everyday life area or house to be exact. I really liked how the animation was a little rigid and not overly smooth to show that it's made from stopmotion. The use of blue tac to make the small objects stick onto walls was also a creative and smart idea to use. I think this knowledge will become handier later on. The next video we watched was made from legos, which seemed to be commonly used in stop animations. Apparently, people do it as a job. This went onto the discussion of how someone recreated the star wars movie entirely out of lego, and how it was "a useless waste of time." I reckon if someone likes what they're doing, let them be. 

The last video we watched for the day was a little bit strange. Instead of using paper, whiteboards, walls or even houses as a canvas, the people int this video decided that people would be the best canvas. This video is called You came out by We have Band. It was kind of interestin g however, as the song (?) kind of suited the video pretty well. 

That's all that I did this lesson.