Storryboard for stop motion film

I was thinking about possible stop motion ideas and decided to create a stop motion featuring myself. I put my friends camera on a tripod and told him to take over 80 photographs of myself based on this storyboard. I then cut out the photos of myself that took about 3 hours. I had recently gone to the cinema to watch a film in 3D and got given a pair of 3D glasses so I came up with an idea featuring the 3D glasses. I also thought about how glasses are an accesory in fashion at the moment even if you have perfect vision. I created a script that can be seen below each image.

After creating the script i recorded myself speaking on a hand held camera and layered it over the top of my stop motion film. This worked quite well and I was happy with the end product however I felt I could have made it better under less time pressure as each photograph of myself wasn't perfectly placed in the position of the previous one. I chose glasses because of their relevennce to a changing landscape of gimmick accessories in fashion thoughtout the years.

I also could have done with taking more photos even though I would have had to of cut out more because it would have been slightly more interesting. I also could have done with having more money; the recoring of myself speaking didn't sound great and would have sounded a lot clearler in a recording studio. However all in all the storyboard was helpful and I was pleased with the stop motion video.

Photomontage

The montage on the left was done by me in the style of David Hockney's montages. I took 15 photos in all from different angles and aspects of the tray and meat products. I opened up a blank file and gradually started adding more and more images into the montage and started overlapping the images.

I thought about the idea of changing food products in a landscape; sausages are fairly new in relitive terms where as porc chops have been around for years, tin foil is fairly new whereas wood top tables have been around for hundreds of years.

My second montage was all about me and my village, I incorperated a landscape photo that I took of Beltring station, 20mins walk from my house, my guitar in the right hand corner, a ceg, an ipod, peanut butter me and my 3D glasses in the top left the local post box in the bottom left and the facebook logo I got off the internet (my village is far away from most of my friends so its a good way to contact people in an isolated area. The lightbulb in the centre is a long lasting lightbulb and so better for the environment than tradition lightbulbs. In this way societies landscape of essential products is changing with social issues such as climate change. I recently discovered a guy in the year above me that lives in my village so the light bulb also symbolises the idea of a light freeing me from boredom. I originally had a background of my friends wall with a bubble pattern and this pattern is merged into all of the photos in the montage most clearly on the top right and ceg. I used a stamp affect on most of the photos to make it more interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

Edited photograph showing a range of skills and photomontage

I took the original photograph in Africa. I turned the photograph into a negative and selected the road. I colourized the road and tree with a red tone. I then selected certain aspects of the image such as the different mountains and changed the darkness of the mountains. I then decided that I would darken the sky and colourize it so it look dull and grey. I then went onto google and thought about the concept of a sun coming up in the background. I expanded this idea and thought about a Japanese type sun because its quite stylized and I think quite interesting. I copyed this in and put it onto a new layer behind the mountains. I then made the rays longer so they reached the edges of the photograph. I thought this was quite an interesting affect because it mixes a more realistic idea with a cartoon like aspect too it.

I researched Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and David Hockney who are three of the most famous photo montage artists. Man Ray one of the most famous photographers of the 1930s and 1940s.