Stop Motion Turtle!

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I was really excited for video week to come around because I knew I wanted to make a stop-motion video! I thought about it for a couple of days and was having a hard time coming up with an easy way to get our theme into a stop motion video, and then I figured maybe I could do something about blogging! Thus came my video of this small turtle quickly learning how to blog and getting ready to read about what needs to get posted on the End website!

To make this video I used an app called “Stop Motion” to collect all of the pictures and mash them together. This was a really easy way to do this because it kept all the photos together for me! For this 22 second video, I ended up taking over 200 photos! It was really fun to figure out how to make it look like the turtle was moving. I made a trial video and I was glad I did, at first I was moving too quickly and jumping between shots.

I then uploaded the video to my computer and used iMovie to pull it together with some royalty free music. I added the clicking of the keyboard too!

Overall I really enjoyed making this assignment and I would definitely love to try and do it again!!

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Fruit stop motion GIF

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For the Inanimate Motion stop motion assignment, I took photographs of some fruit that I was eating and a made a .gif to make it look like the fruit was disappearing. Photoshop has a great feature where you can create a frame animation and export it as a .gif. It was a little difficult to try to put the fruit back in each spot where it was while taking the pictures on my phone (without a tripod), but I think I was pretty successful with it.

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Pumpkins Walking

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Inanimate Motion- 4 Stars

The prompt to this assignment is:

Take successive photos of inanimate objects and put them together in a way that it makes at least one inanimate object move. Make it tell a story!! Bonus points for an epic sound track attached. The idea here is bringing something inanimate to life through the power of video, without taking away the fact that the object in motion is obviously not supposed to be able to move on its own. Make it cheesy, make it awesome, make it rock.

The Work Itself

The Story Behind the Story

Even though Halloween is over, does not mean scary and unusually things can’t happen. I remember there was a Daily Create awhile back that asked us to make a montage of some scary looking pumpkins and that is where part of my inspiration for this video came from. The other part was that these pumpkins have been sitting in my house for over a month and I find them completely useless so I decided to create a use out of them. What’s more terrifying than seeing a couple of pumpkins step by step make their way towards you and then creepily walk back up the steps towards your bedroom! No thank you.

Narrating the Process

To achieve this idea that the pumpkins are in motion, I set up my Nikon L120 camera in front of the steps. I began with the pumpkins at the top of the shot. I would take one photo of them, then move each one a step at a time, take another photo and so on and so forth.

Once that process was completed, I uploaded the photos into Windows Movie Maker. As you can see below. The video was quite short when the pumpkins were only going down the steps, so I extended it by having them go back up the steps as well. Once the pictures were in the correct order, I added a title and credits, along with scary music from Free Music Archive.

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Masked Rider Clash

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The conclusion of a long battle is approaching. Each of the fighters only have a little bit of energy left in them before they can’t go on anymore. They both rise to their feet before leaping high into the air and screaming “Rider Kick” at the top of their lungs. Everything turns white as their powerful feet clash together one last time. Who comes out on top? We may never know because that is the last of the footage that was found of these two. Whoever won could now be living a quite life hidden among us.

Here I am bring you all some more Kamen Rider stuff for this four and a half star assignment. I’ve been collecting little figures of them off eBay, so I decided to use them for this assignment and I had tons of fun doing so. IT took awhile to get all of the photos I wanted. I ended up taking about 70+ pictures at the end of the photo session, but only ended up using about 30 of them. I inserted those photos in order in Sony Vegas and decided that this video needed some background music and sound effects. I went to freesound.org to get the BGM and the sound used for the explosion at the end. I still wasn’t satisfied, so I went to YouTube and found some audio of the respective characters used, Rider 3 on the left side and Agito on the right.

I then inserted those into the video as well and used the Fade Out Through White Transition to help with replicating an explosion. Once everything in the video was the way I wanted it to be, I exported it as a Internet 720p video and began uploading it to YouTube.

Thanks for checking out my video!

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Inanimate Motion

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The assignment called Inanimate Motion (3 points) was to make an inanimate object to move by using power of video. I really wanted to do this assignment so I was keep thinking how I am going to relate to this to John Brown. I realized that it would be great to relate this assignment to his favorite book characters, which are Little Prince and rose. I did not have any figures of them so I printed the images of them and then put them on to the toilet paper tubes.

To do this assignment, I supposed to take photos and then put them together. Instead of doing that, I recorded the movement of Little Prince by pausing recording. After completed recording, I uploaded it to iMovie to put some texts to it. After that, as always, I uploaded it to Youtube and then put background to it.

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By By Whisky

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Inanimate Motion

Well here is a video of my airplane bottle of makers mark disappearing. This was a very simple assignment to complete. All i had to do was take pictures of whisky while i drank it!!!!!

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my body

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With 1 star to go, I picked a 3 star assignment Inanimate Motion because it looked like a fun way to finish up my assignments.

To make this video, I worked with what I could find while studying in jepson. I used my camera and iMovie to make this video. Then i added a song that youtube suggested. Besides that, I think it speaks for itself. Enjoy

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Lulu the green crane finally flys

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A stop motion animation.

This is something many people already have done in one or another way, animating an origami crane. Then again this exactly may be the reason I also wanted to do it.

I once wrote a story about a woman who meets a Japanese man and this was about a crane, too. I’ve lost the story and now had to rewrite it to have it in a written form. However, I can tell that it was about shifting to a parallel world from watching paper cranes moved by a breath of wind to watching real cranes flying. For my stop motion animation I do not shift away, but let a paper crane fly.

The video is made out of photographs I took while folding the crane. After I’ve finished a step I put the work on a background and took an image of it. My camera was fitted on a tripod with the possibility to place it right over a table, like a reproduction stand.

For the flying crane I used a thread and let the crane appear in front of the now ‘standing’ background, where I took the images of the crane. I needed three with different positions of the wings. This was not as easy as I would have wished it, but it worked well enough.

The three images of the flying crane I combined in Photoshop to an animation and exported the frames as single images.

In Premiere Elements I loaded all my image material and put it on the timeline. I added a title and exported all as a video.

For the future I intend to learn about tweens in Photoshop, which can help me to make the motion smoother. This time I was happy to get along so well and got what I imagined for this project.

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The piece of music I found under the menu item Music of my Premiere Elements. It is called Pavane.

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Week 4 Summary Found!

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Well I found this hiding in my drafts. To be honest I never double check if it was published because I was in such a hurry. I went to post one of my assignments tonight and found that this was a draft that was never published. I dunno what happened, probably something to do with my scattered brain. Since I didn’t do it when I originally posted, the files are also now on youtube. I don’t know how much credit I’ll get for last week but here’s the original post. As before the original is in black and new in blue.

Wow did I get my butt handed to me. Editing video took me much longer than I expected. That and uploading seemed to be a bit of a pain in rear. WordPress is really giving me trouble. The “auto imbed” feature of Jet pack doesn’t like me. (6/19 this was fixed) Of course with me being up in Ohio, it was rather difficult to get most of this done in a decent manner. Well here it is folks hope you enjoy.

Mortar to the sound of Sabre’s

This assignment was the “Inanimate Motion” Assignment. I decided to have fun with my new mortar and pestle. This reminded me of making a gif, but having the ability to give it audio.

What Makes you laugh?

This one is self explanatory. I love this movie. It has some of the best one-liners.

Simple DSLR tutorial…I mean really simple.

Ok most parents have a learning curve with technology, especially things with lots of buttons and functions. My DSLR is one of them. Yes, they aren’t that complex….but if you’re used to a kodak disposable…well that’s a different story. Though in my mother’s defence she is not the only one who has mashed the mode knob and was confused why it wouldn’t take the picture.

What skills you got?

Ok i decided taking a video of me taking pictures would be boring. So I decided to show off some of my gear and my finished works. I know similar pictures may be on the web, but I assure you, every picture in this video I personally pushed the shutter button.

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Clay-mation

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The assignment inanimate motion is what I like to call clay-mation without the clay. This was by far the hardest to do just because I could not get these rubber person thingy to stand up -_- I must say if I do this again I would not have used that thing but it fit perfectly into with my story I was going to tell. All I did was take a bunch of pictures and then put them all together on windows movie maker. I think that music would have been nice but I thought that it would have been distracting in this case because I wanted the audience to focus on what was happening and infer the story line from there. My story that I was thinking about was there was a little ducky that got lost and then its owner was looking for him they found each other and then flew off together happily ever after!