I started drafting this reflection last week but then left to go backpacking before I finished so this week I'll be posting two reflections.
It took hours upon hours to design the set with my wife and daughter and it's still not complete. It took 230 painstakingly taken photographs. It took plenty of research and web inspiration. And then end result? A shaky 26 second stop motion video parodying Tchaikovsky's and The Nutcracker's Act II: III. Divertissement: VI. Mother Gigogne. My instincts tell me to wait until I've made a more polished product before sharing my videos. Yet my evolving thoughts on education remind me that "done is better than perfect" and that it's crucial to share the sloppy process as well as an eventual polished (I hope) finished product. So this week for my 20Time project I continued to seek inspiration from others who have also created stop motion animation. I saw dancing fruit and clay which inspired me to take on dancing as well. I learned that although there are workarounds with any program, Final Cut Pro might not be the best program to use due to its lack of an "onion skin" feature. I also continued to learn more about lighting and how it's key to have proper and consistent lighting so that your setting and action look good but also so to be able to use a faster shutter speed. When you're taking 230 or more photos or more, a split second in shutter speed can really make a difference in the cumulative amount of time in a project. My final lesson this week was to not use stop motion photography when I'm not filming movement. In the upcoming week I will try to reshoot this ballet so that it captures more action and does so more steadily. I will also combing photography with film when the setting and action calls for it. And we will continue to develop the setting so that it is more immersive in the story I would like to tell.
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