Animation Project
Our assignment for this animation project was to make a live action stop motion animation with. We decided to base ours around using 2 people and paper effects
Preproduction
We had first spent the first day or two figuring out what our video would be over and what props we would need for the production of the video. Then, before the recording and production of the video, we planned out everything in storyboards. our original plan for the video had been very lengthy and we had many ideas on what we wanted to do so we added them to the storyboards and cut certain parts out if we didn't need it later on. After that we had planned out what effects would be green-screened and what would be in the live video.
Our video was planned to be a fight between Kaid and Laura using paper as weapons and throwing paper planes at each other. The fight was to be started by an evil piece of blue paper that would fly straight into Laura's head and start the fight.
Video Production
Once we had picked out whose job it was film, direct, and do effects we started filming. our original location for the whole video started in an unused printing room and we were later forced out losing about a fourth of our video. We had then moved our filming to the break room between all the Ecom classes. Because of the set back of being moved to another room we had to cut a large portion of our original plan out and get the main parts of our video. Once we had finished creating puppet controls for our paper plane we began filming everything again. Filming was easy and only took about 3 days for us to finish. Once that had been finished we moved on to post production.
Post Production and Editing
During post production, we had assigned a few people to do video editing, audio, and intro and credits. Post production had been a bit of a challenge for a few of us since we hadn't used After Effects in a while and couldn't remember how to use Keylight and other effects. I had done most of the editing of the video and added effects to it while Kaid and Laura edited the greenscreen effects, sound, intro and credits. The editing didn't take us too long and we were able to submit the project without it being too late.
Reflection
Personally I would say this project had been some what of a success since we had a major issue with who was leading the whole project and often got confused with expressing our ideas. We had trouble with teamwork as a whole yet were able to produce a moderate quality animation even after having a massive set back part way through. We did do well with constantly working on the project and picking who did what they were assigned to do.
