Problems we have experienced

Some problems we have had over the course of this term include:

• We used Animationish to put our photoshop photos in instead of converting the animation to Photoshop, this was a problem because our Photoshop photo files were too big to use in Animationish so it was very insufficient and slow.
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•  We've had problems with organization this term working on our project because o some days when certain members of the group were away it meant that we couldn't work on filming or on certain projects because we didn't have the work/usb during class
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• We didn't write down exactly how long each scene/shot goes for in our finished animation so we didn't know how many shots should have been taken during our filming process

What's going on this week

This week in Media we are working on completing all our photos that we need to take on iStopMotion behind the green screen. We have one more scene of photos to take and we will be working on filming this during lunchtimes and afterschool time. We are running a bit behind on our our assignment so we will continue to try and complete all our iStopMotion photos/shots during this weeks lessons and including after school time.

Green Screen Original Photos

Above are some of the photos we have taken on iStopMotion that we need for our animation. The photos will be taken out of iStopMotion individually then we will make them transparent in Photoshop. We still have once more scene to film on the green screen then we can make them all transparent in Photoshop for our Animation.

First Scene of Project

Above is our first scene of our Animation project, we have completed our animation background on Animation is we now just need to convert the background images to Photoshop as well as our iStopMotion photos.

Photos taken with iStopMotion and made transparent with Photoshop

Below are some photos we have taken of one of our group members in front of the green screen in iStopMotion that we have made transparent in Photoshop. 

iStopMotion/Animation Assignment

So far we have completed nearly all our scenes in iStopMotion and we have one scene left to film on the green screen and then to transfer and transform into PhotoShop so its ready for our Animation. We will finish our iStopMotion filming next lesson and then we can start to focus more on changing and altering the photos in Photoshop and adjusting our Animation. I will soon get to upload a video of our first scene completed for our assignment.

Media Prop/Object List For iStop Motion and Animation-ish

Below is my groups prop/object list that we need to complete our iStopMotion and Animation Task

Animation-ish:

Scene 1 (Falling scene)~

·      Draw clouds

·      Draw the red licorice road

·      Draw a brown sign

·      Draw a marshmallow

Scene 2 (Walking scene) ~

·      Draw red licorice road

·      Draw lollipop trees

·      Draw the balloon lollipop

Scene 3 (Balloon/Lollipop scene) ~

·      Draw the balloon lollipop

·      Draw clouds

Scene 4 (Rainbow/Pot of gold scene) ~

·      Draw a rainbow

·      Draw a cloud

·      Draw a pot of gold

·      Draw a mirror

iStop Motion (Pictures):

Scene 1 (Starting scene) ~

·      Bella’s Pajamas

·      Hand Mirror

·      White wall

Scene 2 (Falling scene) ~

·      Bella’s Pajamas

·      Green screen

·      Green screen lights

·      Camera to plug into laptop

Scene 3 (Walking scene) ~

·      Bella’s Pajamas

·      Green screen

·      Green screen lights

·      Camera to plug into laptop

Scene 4 (Balloon/Lollipop scene) ~

·      Bella’s Pajamas

·      Green screen

·      Green screen lights

·      Camera to plug into laptop

Scene 5 (Rainbow/Pot of gold scene) ~

·      Bella’s Pajamas

·      Green screen

·      Green screen lights

·      Camera to plug into laptop

·      Chair/Chair cushion

Scene 6 (Ending scene) ~

·      Bella’s Pajamas

·      Green screen

·      Green screen lights

·      Camera to plug into laptop

·      Chair/Chair cushion

·      Pillows

·      Hand mirror

·      Note saying ‘Thank you for visiting’

·      Lollipop

Assignment

This term in Media we are continuing on our animation iStop-motion and Photoshop assignment piece. Our assignment piece is inspired by candy land. My partners and I are working on our first scene for this project. I have now completed our animation on Animation-ish, so now we are working on putting our photos taken with iStop Motion into Photoshop and making these images transparent so they can be imported into our animation. We still have to take more photos for the remainder of our scenes in iStop Motion which we will continue to do next lesson.