At last!!! I’ve spent the majority of today filming a draft of the stop motion animation film. I say draft because although I’ve used the actual props I think I’ll use for the final film, its more a case of working out whats going to happen, how to cut between two scenes, all experimenty things. Then I can improve it for the final piece.
Although I had forgotten how SLOW the whole process is!!! Especially when the exact angle you want the camera to be at happens to be the one position that the tripod won’t angle to, so you end up compensating by lying at a rather odd angle to balance the tripod, then realise that with both hands holding the tripod, and lying sideways to hold it, you can’t actually move the props to film the animation, let alone find a spare hand to use the camera…
