Part 3 - Making your Stop-motion video with 7-15 frame story board
Your video will need to be a minimum of 20 seconds long (you can go longer, but please do not exceed 90 seconds)
Here is a great video with some tips and tricks for how to create a great stop-motion video using Life Lapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLsLDxD4muw
As you see in the video, it isn't super hard to make these kinds of videos using your phone. Most of you should be using your phones for this project. To do so you will need to go to the App Store and search for Life Lapse and download it. If you do not have a phone, or perhaps cannot download the app because of parent permissions you have two options. You can use a DSLR camera that you can use here at school, or you can get your parents to approve you downloading the app and do this next class or even at home.
Here is what the app looks like:
The video showed you what we need to do today.
Here is one that I made this weekend at home. I hand-held it the entire time and I had it braced on the edge of my desk. I held it with one hand and moved the cars with my other hand. I was able to successfully move 4 different objects easily. I did make 2 versions as I didn't make it very long the first try. I did lock all of the functions once I tried it one time. You will figure it out. I took 42 photos for this project and got about 7 seconds, which isn't quite as smooth as I would like from you. This means you will need to shoot around 180-240 photos for a 20 second offering. There are ways in the app to speed or slow down the frame rate. About 12 photos a second is about right for most efforts. To make stop motion look like a true movie, you would need 24 frames per second. I am not expecting that. Try for about 12 photos per second of video, but remember on your first effort, I will take a video from 15-20 seconds long.
I am also going to share a couple of other videos on the screen at this time.
For those of you who plan to use your phone, you can start messing around with the app. If you need things to make your video happen (if you forgot it at home or something), I have things on the table near the couches you can use. We have some table space around the room, feel free to move computers back along with the keyboards and mice. I have also brought out a couple of tables that you can use. I also have tripods and cell phone mounts available. I brought some cups that you can use to hold your phones as well. I believe that most of you should be able to start working without any problems.
You could also use: Stop Motion Studio
Now to those people who are not planning to use your cell phone.
If you do not have a cell phone, cannot use your cell phone, or would prefer to use a DSLR camera. I will have those available for your use. The sequence is the same, but you will need to use a computer program to create your video.
You will need to do the same thing as your fellow students using Life Lapse, but instead of the app taking photos for you, you will need to take those photos yourself. You will need 100+ photos to get a 20 second video.
Once you have your images, you will need to get those images to your drive. If you used your phone, you will need to upload them to drive. If you used a DSLR, you will need to get help from me to get the SD card into the computer and uploaded to your drive.
Once you get your images into Drive, you can use any of the following program to make your stop motion animation.
https://fixthephoto.com/best-online-stop-motion-maker.html
I have not used ANY of these programs. Last year we use Life Lapse exclusively, except those students who had their own programs and knew how to use them. It looks like Kapwing opens right away. I am not sure how it works, so you will have to experiment on your own.
https://www.kapwing.com/studio/editor
In the end, here is a link to a page of animation that are going to be similar to what you might make if you hand drew your creation:
http://www.andrewnourse.com/MA/paper-anime.html
For those of you interested in moving on to the animation program, you next class is Graphic Design. But the following year you will be with Mr. Nourse. Here is a link to his animation class:
http://www.andrewnourse.com/MA/index-ma.html
Here is a great example Mr. Nourse made with his daughter where they created a Pixilation which involves having an actor or actress in the creation. This would be fine as well. I showed you this video in class on Monday.
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