Stop Motion Four.

Here I have played around with the idea of using clothes while using the stop motion technique. Inspired by the Joost Vandebrug video. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT! 

Stop Motion - Third Attempt

In this third attempt I used a fish eye lens to distort the image slightly. Instead of continually shooting I asked the model to move into positions then would take seperate shots to make the final video a little more jerky and jumpy. 

Stop Motion - Second Attempt

Here is the second attempt at stop motion. The beauty of stop motion is that you have every effect from the camera you're using, although I haven't really explored it here. I shot in black and white to simply see how it looked and to flatten the image of colour and create a much more greyscale effect so the viewer can focus on the movement.

The use of no props and simple lighting and colour leaves the oppurtunity to see every movement from the model in a series of images put together. I really love the simplicity effect created.

My first attempt at Stop motion.

I decided to move on to stop motion due to the simple mixture of still and moving photography. Stop motion is simple and easy. A series of stills taken constantly one after another to create the illusion of something that is moving. Here I am simply getting used to how short I want the stills to be when put into the movie and how often I need to shoot with the camera to get the timing sufficient. I decided to use a prop just to see how it would look when being moved around in the stills. I changed all the stills at 0.2s in this clip just to keep it moving smoothly.

Wonderland TV directed by Joost Vandebrug.

Fat City Reprise - Long Gone.

I have previously looked at the first video I have posted here by Joost Vandebrug but I wanted to go back and have another look. As time is running out I've found myself not panicking but sitting around not sure how to move on with my project. I want to explore as much as I can in this moving photography project before I move on to studying photography at university. Stop motion photography is an area that I haven't looked at properly yet and I'm not sure why as it's enchanting and creates the effect of jumping from frame to frame naturally without being editted. IT involved everything that I want it to; the magic of still photography but into a movie to create the illusion of a moving image.

I need to decide on how I want to but my own stop motion photography together and actually need to put together a story board or guidelines this time which is something I really didn't want to do as I don't see myself as creating a movie persay, more of a piece of art. In the Vandebrug video he is advertising many different fashion companies and in the second for Fat City Reprise directed by Cesar Kuriyama is a music video where he explores the use of stop motion photography outdoors on location depicting a story. Instead of doing either of these things I want to use ideas from both and create a stop motion film that is reading a poem to us therefore telling a story but with thw written word.

Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers.

Directed By Wolf Haley
Filmed By Luis Panch Perez.

I really love Tyler, the Creator anyway but this video is just so interesting to watch I wanted to include it. The way the camera goes in and out of focus to show and hide things is such a good and original idea which works really well. The silhouettes make the video much more interesting to watch and again this is something I want to try and explore and include in my own work to make it that little bit quirky and mysterious.

Something WIcked This Way Comes featuring Rosie Huntington Whitely by RANKIN.

This video is beautiful. I wanted to include it on by blog due to the way layers are footage are layered together. I want to try this out but need to find the perfect computer programme to use.