I travelled to the Orkney Islands at the end of March with a group of people from the Fruitmarket Gallery. Whilst there one of the coordinators decided upon a task to make a short animated film using characters people would randomly generate through either randomly selecting names, or sentences from books/leaflets and putting them together.
While this was impossible to do over there as we attempted this on a train, once I returned home, I set everything up (paper cutouts, backgrounds etc) and used the same stop-motion technique I used on the figure to create this. I moved each image slowly and took a photo of it.
However, with this attempt, I used a tripod for some scenes, and for others, I held the camera above the picture and either zoomed in or out manually to acquire a zoom and pan effect.
This is the type of animation I want to use in my animation as I find using paper cutouts is less time consuming to animate and the same effect is received upon watching it.
If worst comes to the worst, I will recreate this effect on Flash and have several scenes animated fully. It will save more time as well as I will simply have the characters slide in a motion effect, which will allow me to do more towards the fully animated scenes.
i created the music via an app on my phone. It was a keyboard app. I would set the keyboard to sound like a guitar, play a tune, record it on my computer, and insert it to the video track. Unfortunately it doesn't contribute too much to the story, though it sounds nice.
If I do use music in my final piece I will try to have more meaningful music to the scenes which they are played at.