Assignment #7 - Stop-Motion Animation
http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/martian.html
You have been assigned a number. That number corresponds to one of the sentences in the poem at the above link, in order. (to be clear, a sentence ends with final punctuation like a period, not at the end of a line or a comma). Each person has their own sentence. For example, if you’re number 9 then this sentence is yours:
If the ghost cries, they carry it to their lips and soothe it to sleep with sounds.
Use this sentence as content to help you find your way, to inspire your object, place, aesthetic, style, effects, and more.
Steps - Week 1 - gathering content
find a significant object
Storyboard your narrative using a template - http://goo.gl/Knl6bX
-experimental film or narrative- inciting incident>climax>end (arc)
take 200 photos of each to create an animation of the object + place
You can plan for a frame rate or 10-24 frames per second.
Create several high-quality recordings of your lines from the poem
Use found (environmental) and made (audio effects, Voiceover, kitchen appliances- hum of the refrigerator, etc.) audio
no more than 15% of your project can be music - that you make yourself.
come up with a couple working titles for your piece
use photoshop, illustrator, handdrawing, painting, markers or any other medium to realize your titles - we will bring these into Premier during class to edit into your film. This should follow in a frame animation style. You can also do a stop-motion for the title (i.e. of you drawing the title as in this example.)
No Panning and Zooming to animate the stills
Steps - Week 2 - Editing Sound and Film
edit your photos into a 1-1:30 min film with a soundtrack that supports the ideas within your film.
Think about how you might employ what you’ve learned so far in the class - how to use Photoshop for editing the photos, Audition for pushing the audio into new places, and we will use Premiere to explore how to organize, animate and create a time-based experimental narrative film.
*To submit project - Post your film to Youtube or Vimeo and embed into your Tumblr. Also upload final film poroject to the class server in the /Playground. Compress your files into an archive (instructions here) and rename the compressed .zip file in this format - lastname_firstname_Animation. Your compressed file should contain the following parts:
at least one recording of your lines of the poem being read aloud
final animation exported as a high quality .mov
