Feedback
My personal response to the animation I produced is that I thought it was good enough for the level I'm at, because I made a time-lapse at the best quality it could be at, I edited it a bit and I think the music was good for it. Overall I'm happy with the animation I made.
The feedback I received for my animation was good, but there was one feedback saying I could of edited the animation a bit better. They through the quality of the animation was good, they liked the music for the animation and theme was good. I'm happy was the feedback I got.
To improve my animation I need to do the editing a bit more better. Also the next time to set the camera on to something more stable so the camera will stop moving round when there is wind and to record for a little bit longer.
I will make them changes the next time I make an animation, I found the feedback helpful and I will make improvements overtime.
What I used
To shoot my time lapse I used my IPhone. The IPhone automatically takes the shots when you start to record, then it will compress it into a video when you stop recording, but with IPhone no matter how long you film the video will only be 20 to 40 seconds long. It depends how long you film for, for what the speed and frame rate will be. I recorded twice for roughly 30 to 40 minutes, so both clips will be 1 frame every 2 seconds and the speed will be 60x.
Software
1.) The software I used to edit was Adobe Premiere Pro, I got my clips off my phone and saved them onto the computer. I then imported them into Premiere by going to File > Import then going were I saved the clips, once they were imported I put them into order when it was light go to dark.
2.) After putting it into order I then added the title and credits, when I was adding the title, I didn't want a plain black background, I had a clip that I had done when testing out the time lapse, so I added that clip to the title and I it turn out better than just a plain background.
3.) Lastly I added the music, to add the music I got a song off YouTube, then converted it to a mp3 and downloaded it. Once downloaded I imported it, I dragged it in and cut it so it was the same time as the video and made it fade at the end. Also when getting a song off YouTube make sure it's copyright free.
Exporting
When I had done my edit, I went to make it into a mp4, click File > Export > Media, for the Format I choose H.264 and for Preset I choose HD 1080p 25. When it was exported I uploaded it to YouTube.
(I lost the screenshots of the Import and Export progress.)
Review
Making the time lapse was fun but not easy the first time trying to film the time lapse was really hard because of the weather, it was windy when I was filming so my phone kept moving or falling over and was hard to keep still. Also of the cold weather my phone would some times turn off in the middle of filming. None of the clips were long enough and it was shaky so had to redone it. The second time was much easier, I got a little stand so my phone wouldn't move and I also took a battery pack so my battery wouldn't run out. The thing that was the easiest part was the editing part of the production, editing the clips together and adding the music, which through the music matched the video.
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Looking at tutorials on how to set up time-lapse on the camera.
Been looking at how to set the camera up to do a timelapse and what setting it need to be on, to do the time lapse.
My main idea that I am going to do is a sunset time-lapse, for the sunset time-lapse I would have to do it when it's clear because it's winter, so its quite hard to get a clear view of the sky. Also for the time-lapse i was going to do it a the park but i would have to see which why the sun sets and will it be a clear view. If the park didn't work the next place I would do the time-lapse would be at the docks, get the view of the river as the sun sets.
For the second assignment I have to plan and produce my own animation, the animation has to be 20 seconds or more. I have 4 techniques of animation that I can choose from, Model, Cut-out, Time lapse and Pixilation for the assignment. For my animation I am going to be doing time-lapse, the reason I chose to do time-lapse is because I had more ideas on what to do for time-lapse and I want to try a different animation technique.
The three ideas I have for my animation are:
1. Drawing
Time Lapse is a type of animation and photography technique where the camera takes pictures after a certain amount of time, when you play the time lapse at normal speed, the time appears to be moving faster which creates the lapsing. If you want an time lapse to run smoothly, you need 24 frames to create 1 second, 10 seconds will be 240 frames. If your time lapse is for 2 minutes, it would be 2 frames per minute. 24 frames per second x 10 seconds = 240 frames ÷ 120 minutes = 2 frames per minute. You can use the same math if your time lapse is longer.
Pixilation is a stop motion technique where real people are used as a frame by frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing poses slightly before the next frame or frames. The person becomes a living stop motion puppet.
Pixilation has been around since early film, it's earliest forms are back in the 1910s, but it didn't really take off though until the 1950s with Norman McLaren's most famous pixilation film Neighbors.
