Stop Motion Editing

This week, I decided to work on our stop motion part of our film opening. We decided to use stop motion for this part as it would make it quite disorientating for the viewer and also would make use of our skills. I used windows movie maker for this, but we will be importing it into iMovie shortly. On a previous filming day I took many pictures of Anna, our actress, dressed in costume with her wound applied. I took pictures from a 360 degree angle around her, and stop motion allows it to look slightly jerky without being bad.
Here are some examples of the pictures taken:

I took a close up shot from directly in front of her to show a sinister, demonic smile, and the hint of a wound.

This shot shows the wound fully and by Anna looking directly at the camera makes the viewer/character feel they are unable to escape from her sight.

This shot makes Anna look slightly vulnerable  lulling the audience and character into a false sense of security.










Then in Windows Movie Maker, I played around with the different timings, I could either choose to make the clips run for around 7 seconds each, giving the viewer a detailed look at Anna's character each picture, however this meant the pictures didn't look like they flowed very well when played, so I kept making the timings shorter and shorter to see what looked best. In the end, the final footage only lasts 1 second, however this looks much better, as the photographs flow, but are slightly jerky adding to the disorientation. Also, this means it won't take up a long time in our actual opening, meaning we won't bore the audience with 22 seconds of effectively a slideshow. By speeding it up, it also gives the opportunity to use some kind of sound on this 1 second part of footage, such as 'woosh' kind of sound, to bring suspense to one of the first times we see Anna's face properly. Now I have sped the footage up, in iMovie we can add visual effects such as filters so that it blends nicely with the other footage and fits with the time period.

When experimenting with the footage  found that changing the hue on some pictures, gives and interesting effect when played quickly, so I have published that too, to see if i could be used on whether we decide the original is best.