For my final piece I decided on a showing a part of my morning routine. The test piece worked quite well, so I decided to carry that idea on, but add a little at the beginning.
To make my film I went about the routine whilst taking photos. This gives an interesting point of view shot, so the audience feel like they are performing these actions. This also gave me the desired effect I wanted.
Rather than go for a polished stop motion, I wanted mine to have more of a rough feel. By taking photos whilst I was walking through the story gave me this rough feel.
The rough feel to the images is matched by the imperfections in sound. Sounds do not always line up perfectly, and this is the effect I wanted to achieve. This rough feel reflects and compliments the mood of the film.
By having it set when our character has just woken up, he is not totally aware of what is happening. This is why the camera sometimes becomes jumpy, and sounds do not always match up to the image.
I think the recorded sounds work very well with my chosen soundtrack, and these combined works well to add to the effect of waking up.
The quality of the images is good, and I am happy with the ones I have produced. They are clear in what is happening, and technically they fulfil their need.
Overall I am happy with the film, and I think it is an interesting way of showing a normal routine that people do every day. I’ve had feedback from several who enjoyed it, and others said it gave them a bit of a headache. I can sympathise with the latter, as I did get one myself during editing. If I were to do another stop motion film like this, I would try to use a more consistent fps rate so that images flow more smoothly. I think the sounds work very well to add to the waking up effect, and that the soundtrack used doesn’t overpower the sounds I recoreded, but fits with them very well. I am very happy with the images themselves, and I think there is a good variety.
