Responsive: Dazed - Stop Motion

For one our four videos, we had decided to create a stop motion animation onto someone's face, this someone being Wing who very kindly agreed to be our model. The idea came from looking at Hattie Stewart's work and we thought that it would fit in with our idea of creating something fun and 'wacky' to demonstrate creative independence.
We had agreed to keep the theme of shapes and patterns running within this video and came up with the idea of using simple shapes, such as squares or circles and painting them in sequence onto Wing's face.

Molly Animating

Although the process was very straight forward and we didn't have any issues whilst shooting, it did take us the best part of 6 hours (not that we didn't expect it to take that long). We started off with the smaller patterns and animated them before moving on to the full face paint. Personally, I feel that the whole process went really smoothly, apart from someone occasionally knocking the tripod (I sat with it after the third time and made sure that it didn't move any more). 

Katy Animating

Although we managed to animate this part quite easily, we did encounter some problems with the finished footage. To start, we didn't set the camera up for wide screen, so all of the shots weren't 16:9 format, however, this can be fixed really easy as we allowed room for cropping in the shots, so this isn't a major issue and can be fixed really easily in post. Another issue is that we seated Wing on a moving chair, we didn't feel that we had much of a choice, as we couldn't expect her to sit on a hard chair for 6 hours, and this was a compromise we made so she would be as comfortable as possible. I can attempt to fix the jumpiness in After Effects using the motion stabilizer setting in an attempt to make the footage a little smoother. However, the biggest issue that we had was that we had forgotten to take off the auto white balance. This has resulted in the levels being different in every shot, which detracts from the animation as a whole. In order to stabilize this, I will have to attempt to alter the levels for each frame, Mike suggested that I do each fame individually in Photoshop. This might be the case, however I feel that it may be more time efficient to attempt to key frame the levels in After Effects.

I will attempt both of these methods to see which produces the best results. 

Despite the issues that we have encountered, which I feel were due to us not being as organised as a group as we were for the other shoot, w have managed to get a lot of footage that I can use to cut together to create our final video. I'm confident that I will be able to adjust the footage in post to create something of a similar quality to our other videos. If we had more time I would have asked to redo the whole thing, but we are quite short on time and I feel that it would also be a little unfair to Wing to make her sit there for another 6 hours. It has however taught me to double check that our equipment is set up properly before starting work to avoid as many complications/ issues as possible.