Project 1-WIP 2-Production

Posted on by Julia Reymundo

Once LeAnn Schmitt and I finished shooting the stopmotion sequence, I started editing it on Adobe Premier Pro 2019. This is where we focused on placing sound effects for the actions show in the stop motion. From the previous post, our concept is about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. Due to the simplicity of the concept itself, we agreed on using a lot of different sound effects but not too much of it.

The sound effects that were used both came from online and done in person. Although, it was quite difficult to do it in person since using a phone microphone captures all of the surrounding audio. I did however try to lessen the noise once I added it onto the video editing program. Finding online sources, was easy if you know how to find them properly. I was able to find a website that sourced free mp3s that had a good search engine. The sounds I used may have come from the literal object, however, I did also use sounds that came from random sources. (ex. mac and cheese). Once it was done, I double checked the video for any mistakes and exported it.

Julia Reymundo and LeAnn Schmitt

Project 1 – Object Animation WIP by Janelle and Tan

Posted on by Thang Tsz Ching, Janelle

After seeing the assignment, it immediately brought memories back from my younger self. Talking about object movement, it was my all-time favourite thing to play with. I loved playing with toys, role-playing each characters and creating stories. During class before, I used to love playing with my stationary on the classroom desk. Every movement that I did to the pens, rubber, ruler and stapler are scenes of a story in my head, it is like watching a tiny movie with myself.

Therefore, I suggested a very short story with stationary so we did it. The story we chose is simply a knight slayed a monster. Here is our “actors”.

Random stationary + random objects we have

Characters:
USB and a Lipstick : Victims
Rubber : A Knight
Pegasus Toy : Royal ride of the Knight
Scissors : A Sword of the Knight
Random Stationary and An Apple Charge Wire : The Evil Monster

We first decided to use the scissors as the head of the monster because it looks dangerous, fitting the theme of a monster but after a few discussion, we decided to use the scissors as the sword of the knight and replaced the head with a stapler because the scissors actually have a cover which is similar to a sword, as for the stapler, it is much more easier to work with.

Originally, we only decided on the knight slaying a monster as the story. We wanted to add a clear opening and ending so we added victims, a quick reason for the knight to slay the monster and the monster is dead in the end.

We had a trouble of shooting this because I forgot to bring a phone holder for the assignment so we spent a little bit of time to find a way to hold the phone. We went to an empty room to shoot this and hold the phone with the two tables.

The finale when we are done shooting

One of the frame

One of the frame

Thang Tsz Ching, Janelle
Jiawan Tan

Project 1-WIP 1-Pre-production and Production

Posted on by LeAnn Schmitt

For our first project, Julia Reymundo and I will be doing a stop-motion animation about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. To keep it simple there are no elaborate sets or people in the shots. ( I have a hand cameo but that’s it) We drew most of our inspiration from the Haunted Hotel By James Stuart Blackton and the idea that the objects were able to move independently with what looked like no human intervention.

There was not a lot of pre-production work since we settled on the concept very quickly due to its simplicity. Most of our time went into spit balling ideas on what camera we could use and how we were going to get nice angles without a tripod. We decided we would be using an ipad and a free stop-motion software that I found in the app store. For post production we plan on putting the exported film into Premiere and enhancing the movement of the objects with sounds and background music.

During production we had to get rather creative when it came to shooting since we were in a cramped kitchen trying to get dynamic shots of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We ended up using a bowl, a drying rack, and even a rice cooker as our makeshift tripods. It was a fun experience.

LeAnn Schmitt and Julia Reymundo