Evaluation

Throughout this assignment I have taken multiple photographs to show movement. I have then put these pictures into Final Cut Pro and I have made them into stop motion videos. I have been able to add music and text to these videos.

I have used a lot of equipment throughout this assignment such as cameras, tripods, Macs, a fully equipped studio, an Xbox, an Xbox Kinect and a Flip video camcorder. To produce my videos I used Final Cut Pro to put my pictures into a sequence. I dragged the pictures into a timeline then ‘Nested’ the items, I was then able to change the speed of how fast the different pictures came up. I was able to add text by writing what I wanted then dragging it onto the timeline as if it was a picture. Then finally I added music by dragging the track into an audio timeline and rendered the video. I was then able to export the videos as a ‘Quick Time Movie’s’ which allows me to upload them to my blog.

I found it difficult to get good quality pictures while still having the pictures bright, as a lot of the time when I took the pictures it was dark. I also, at first, changed the pictures speed by each individual picture, I didn’t realise you could nest the items to make a sequence then change the speed of how fast the sequence was played.

I would like to try stop motion animation more as when we played the Kinect I liked it and felt that if I had been able to get a more in depth understanding of it I might of want to try something with stop motion animation like Tim Burton does. However my work is a lot more like Walt Disney’s except I had the technology available to me which allowed my to produce my videos in a fraction of the time that he produced his.

I am pleased with my videos as they show I have an understanding of stop motion, and an understanding of how to use Final Cut Pro. As a first attempt at stop motion I am happy however I would like to do more in the future. If I was to do this assignment again I would change the speed of the pictures in the video of the road, I would also cut out the pictures of when you can see I’m in a car before I nest the items. I would also like to add to the video of the star jumps as it is short and I like the idea behind it and I feel I picked the right music to go with the video.