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Our Stop Motion Movie, By Lydia, Sally, Teegan and DD

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YAY!! Hard work pays off in the end.  :)

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Team: Daniel, Stephen, Gabriele

Title: Gum tree story

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use hashtags #acarts #stop-motion #dmffinalstopmotion

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Class notes- Must remember to keep all files in one place so that Premier knows where to find them- transferring them once they’ve been used in premier means that premier won’t be able to shortcut to them.

After opening-

make sure it’s saving to the correct place

HDV 1080p25

Import your pictures from folder- it is possible to organise this in premier but might also be good to organise images before entering them into Premier.

2-3 frames/second

edit-preferences-general, 1 sec 10 frames

to change the timing of many frames at a time, select multiple frames and right click- brings up the option speed/duration. Select ripple edit, shifting trailing to ensure that frames squash together correctly.

Cross dissolve fades one image to the next, click, drag and drop effect the effect on to the frame you want it to change. Transitions are editable once dropped onto the frames, length of time that they run can be changed

If you want sound from a youtube video and not the video, import the MP4 file into premier, and then hide the video layer, keeping only the sound. Sound file can be cut and edited.

You can import a video and export frames from within it for use in stop motion video

to create title go to Title menu- new title (roll, still crawl) and where you can play with different types of text to create your title and credits.

youtubemp3 and Keepvid.com- designed for ripping videos off of youtube- copy and paste url into keepvid and download.

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You da best gurl, shank you!

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Thanks :)

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Whoa! Waay better than mine :) Stealing this, thanks!

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Thank you! I was late so I really needed these notes :D

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Saving Your Animation File

Exporting your Premiere file as an .AVI or .MP4 file:

Select heading menu: File-Export-Media

Choose file type .MP4-(.AVI for youtube) select bottom preset and ensure all other ‘Match Sequence Settings’ options are ticked, then click export.

Consider uploading your final video to youtube, vimeo or smartphone.

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Individual Conclusion

Conclusion

Last Wednesday we finally finished all our shots (videos and photos) for our stop motion animation, which is a love story that starts and ends with a chewing gum. 

All the three of us had different ideas. I for example wanted to use the Playmobil figures of my son to make the film. However Daniels cut outs were so beautiful that we had to take them. 

It was hard work doing the shots. There was a transparent sheet and a table with two lamps. In between (not much space) we had to sit and move the cut out figurines. It was very exhausting and physically demanding when doing a shot again and again until it was perfect. I am thinking of the scene where Alice is making a bubble or in the end when she is dying and drops the gum.

In class we did a small stop motion animation using photos of a model head. I could quite good understand how it works and following the instructions. However finalising our movie would be very hard for me. I am glad Daniel is managing it. Our film is very extensive and doing it within that short time frame did not make it easier.

I enjoyed the project very much. It was very exciting.

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Working on the scenes for the Gum Tree. We used finely crafted paper cut outs by Daniel and a semi transparent screen backlit by two lamps. Most scenes took at least two to three takes to get right. Working with rigid figures the movement is crucial and you need to be patient. We spent some time out of class finishing of the frames and hopefully can tie it all together on Wednesday.

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Set in an old style orphanage, the story opens with one of the main characters (Alice) chewing gum in class, which draws the attention of the teacher. Her classmate Robert takes the fall for Alice, and for his heroic deed Alice gives Robert the rest of her gum. The exchange of the gum is used as a...

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Story board. total 12 papers

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These are our story board.

After making story structure, I made story board, I just draw and write letters on a4 blank paper. And I made 12 pieces of story board.

Making story board was a quite attractive process. (I really enjoyed this job!).

Firstly I listen to to mosic Susanboil’s song (title: Somewhere over the rainbow) I was inspired this song and got the idea of our work, and suggest it to our team members. Stephan andGabriel liked it and they gave me many good ideas abou the story and way of expression.

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Finally I've got the idea how to create the appropriation. I changed the black background and inserted a image of a nuclear mushroom cloud and the text 'finished nuclear tests?'

I like the paintings of the people of the south pacific by Paul Gaugin and seeing them I am often reminded to the nuclear tests by the USA and France that were made up to the 90's in this beautiful area with this beautiful people. I think they have finished now and I hope and wish that  there will be no nuclear tests anywhere else on earth in future.

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Magical forest carousel made with packing tape (by Mark Jenkins) - Imgur

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Self-portrait gif reflections.

I chose the photos of me with a pelican because I spend several weeks each year in mid-summer and mid-winter in the Coorong working on birds. I’ve been going to the Coorong since 1984 when Mum and Dad took me on a research trip at the age of one.

This young pelican took off from the breeding island on a really windy day in January this year and got blown about a kilometre before it fell down in the middle of the highway right in front of the car I was driving. We picked it up, gave it some fish and drove it back up to the shoreline near the island and released it. The wind had dropped and it flew back to find it’s parents on the breeding island.

The words ‘Freedom is mine…’ reflect both the pelican’s story but also the fact that at the beginning of the year I stopped working full-time to come to art school and that I feel a great sense of freedom now.

I had never tried to generate a gif before this class. I was amazed at how easily it could be done using Photoshop. It was quite simple if you started with all the layers you wanted included and then generated the animation. It got a little more confusing when you started trying to modify and add in new layers. Objects started popping up on various frames of the animation when you didn’t want them too and then when you turned them off sometimes you lost them from the frames which you did want them in. I also tried resizing the pelican (making it smaller) as it moved into the distance – this created some unusual ghosting in the animation sequence.

Photoshop is such a great program for image manipulation. In the creation of the layers for this  animation I used;  free transform to create a simple background layer, the select and erase tools to cut out my figure and the pelican and the transform (scale) tool to make the pelican smaller.

With more experience I would hope to create a smoother flow of movement in the gif. I did amend this and improve the movement of the pelican in my second attempt. I also added in the fade-out sun-setting at the end of the gif which I think softened the end. I used some other Photoshop tools such as adjusting ‘levels’, ‘colour balance’, ‘hue’ and ‘brightness’ on various layers to achieve this.

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beautiful!

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Finally I finished my gif in gifninja!

Conclusion

GIF with online GIF generator (gininja.com)

I choose a painting of Paul Gaugin. Unfortunately I do not have Photoshop and therefore created my ‘frames’ in powerpoint . I copied the painting and cropped it accordingly.

The work does not fulfill the criteria of memes and appropriation. There is no contemporary aspect in it. I was thinking of putting an i-phone on the stone in the left corner and let a plane appear in the sky on the right side – with the help of photoshop!!!!

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Hey let’s run!!

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That is really good, I like it, it is funny

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Conclusion

GIF and Photoshop file / Self portrait

  I don’t have photoshop on my computer and I have never used photoshop before. I needed quite a lot of support by the lecturer. It would be recommendable to first get to know photoshop before starting to create gifs.

However I somehow managed to make my self portrait gif.

I loaded a background photo and put in an image of a lotus flower and me by using the lasso. I changed the position of the tortoise in every layer of the ‘layer turtle’, which makes it walking from right to left. Further I imported a picture of the sun salution pose and the text, a poem. To be honest, I do not know any more how the text is animated.

I think I need to practice and then I can imagine it would be fun to create gifs.

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Photoshop

resolution: 600 - is high, 72 - 300 not bigger

width: 500 pixel

height: 500 pixel

Layer, drawing, brush, brushsize

Edit, transform, scale

Lasso - click around, select

Add layer mask

Window animation

make another frame, play for ....5 sec.

1st frame

tween tool, add in 6 extra frames

File, save for web + devices

post gifts on tumblr under 1000 kb

Image size 400 x 400

Colour red. - smaller kb

save: cat.gif

tags dmf, gif, acarts