Stop Motion Practice

This is a practice clip of the stop motion scene that we plan to do in our actual music video. We felt that we should practice this technique before deciding whether or not to use it as it is hard to make it look professional. To create this effect we filmed lots of different shots with a slight movement after each shot as if to show a movement in time, after we had filmed it we had to edit each shot to cut it down to the right time to make the clip flow. I think that this effect has worked but we could improve the way we do it when we film it for the real thing. When we film it we need to be more careful with the movement of the tie as a couple of times it fell off completely which made it had to get it in the right place for the shot, also I think that the person in the shot varied his movement a lot, this made the film look slightly jumpy as his distance from the camera changed. Those are the things we need to be careful with when filming. When we are editing the film we need to make sure that each shot is shorter than on this example, as on this we decided to have each shot as 4 frames, we now know that this is a bit long because we need the clip to be 7 seconds but now it is 25 seconds. So we think when we edit it for the music video we may have each shot as just 1 frame, this will speed up the process of him getting changed and also I think it will make it flow better. Below is an example of a stop motion video which is the music video for Coldplay’s song 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall.' This music video is a good example of how stop motion works, they have stop motion for the whole song whereas we will have it for 7 seconds, this is partly because we wanted to incorporate other ideas into the video it is also very time consuming and difficult, for example it probably took us 30 minutes to film the short clip we created.

Coldplay - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall