Onto our fifth project of this unit already and we've been set the task of producing a movie in the style of pixilation, which consisted of capturing different shots, with each one gradually moving every time. We could choose the groups we worked in this time, which was good, as together, we had really good ideas, and we decided to put them all together. I was with Naomi, Katie and Jade. We all set ourselves areas where we would work, so I was on camera with Naomi, whilst Katie and Jade were positioning the scissors to where we directed them to go in coherence with the camera positioning.
After being given a short tutorial on how to create a movie of this genre by our tutor, Tim, we decided to take the concept a little further by making inanimate objects come to life. Honestly, this wasn't inspired by any animation we had seen before. We saw some scissors, and decided it'd be pretty awesome to bring them to life. We really wanted to be different and stand out from the crowd, so instead of the main characters being ourselves, we decided to use scissors. Jade and Katie appeared in the video every so often by appearing to be chased and attacked by the scissors, who we had named Salt and Pepper.
The concept of the whole production was for Salt and Pepper to be strangers at the beginning, and by the end, they would be the stereotypical happy couple and live happily ever after. In-between, they went their own separate ways, and were reunited at the end. We used a mixture of tripod work and hand-held photographing so it seemed to appear quite alternative and unusual, keeping the audience intrigued on the storyline.
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| The making of our movie - behind the scenes |
Editing the final piece was simple in some places, and tricky in another. As there was four of us, nobody wanted to take control of the editing, as not one of us was overly confident on use the editing software, Adobe Premier Pro. In the end, I took the lead by sitting at the computer and doing the basics. Importing over 200 photos into the programme took time, but whilst this was happening, we spoke about how we could perhaps put our own twist on it. We decided we would add a backing track to our production to make it professional and a bit more life-like. Searching the length and depth of YouTube for tracks to use was pretty time consuming, but in the end we found a tune that worked perfectly. An upbeat track was the one we went for, and this was the theme tune to Wallace & Gromit. We also added a title sequence and credits, as the song was a little longer than the frames. An introduction title sequence was added, 'The Only Way Is Salt and Pepper', ending with a 'created by' sequence and all of our names.
We were all really happy with the final piece as we were not expecting it to be this good! This, personally, is my favourite production I have done to date. I really look forward to doing another video like this, as it was great fun to film, and with it being a light-hearted production which made filming less stressful!
Cheerio. :o)
- Olivia.
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