Bullet test no.1 - Stop Motion
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To make our film as good as it can get we decided on a new stop motion idea to display a bullet flying which would incorporate more than one type of editing and boost our overall marks. But before we started to draw up ideas we received valuable information from Miss Sutton which helped us realise we had many different ways of doing it and that it was best to explore each one to find the best. This was also feedback from when we pitched to the class and all commented on how it would be difficult but worth spending a lot of time on to get right. Our first test was the basic photo stop motion idea where we would string up a bullet from the celine using wire string and slowly move the bullet along the camera's view taking a photo every time it moved. This by definition should give us a steam of frames which when put together would look like a piece of ordinary film. However when we did this we were short on time so not enough pictures were taken and the whole process was rushed, on top of this the blue tack we used was heavy on one side and wouldn't stop moving so some pictures lost the continuity of where the bullet was travelling. But the string didn't appear on the pictures and the background was the same throughout the whole range of pictures. Also when we put them all together on the E Mac's imovie software we were able to speed the transitions up to 0.2 of a second making the whole clip just under 2 seconds and all of the mistakes barely noticeable. While this test took 20 minutes and 18 pictures if we were to conduct on a larger scale for our final scene we would put in the extra effort and aim for around 50-60 pictures for a 4 second clip. This would achieve a bullet flying with effortless fluidity and almost no noticeable mistakes.
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