Filming

Filming Process Here we took it in turns to take photos, mould the clay flowers slightly step by step. Suprisingly the film is starting to come together, it looks alot better than expected. We had to overcome a few problems; . Moulding the flower gradually to make the growing process flow . The lighting of the film set overall, we had to block out the nearby window with black card . When the sun moved across the screen we needed to fix it in the sets sky, we decided to cellotape it on the side . The overall speed was a problem, we needed to fiddle with the speed to find a 'not too fast' and 'not too slow' speed which allowed it all to flow well and last 2 minutes

Design Process

Storyboard Before we started making our set and clay models we had to decide on a story. We deicded to write it step by step on our storyboard, the main idea was that it was to show a plant growing from the first point where seeds are planted, it included the following step by step; . Seeds are planted (By a hand) . Night time . Sun rises . Plant grows slowly . Watering can pours water (blue glitter) . Bees fly passed . Pollen (yellow clay) drops around the flower . Butterly flies past We are concerned that our might not last 2 minutes in total so we have decided if it does not last long enough we agreed that more flowers will grow around the original flower.

Design process of stop animation

At this point we realised we had underestimated how much work we had to do. After watching other groups taking pictures for their stop animation, it was obvious the most time consuming efforts were yet to come! We came up with the idea of a flower growing so we started with making our set and also making our flower and set out of clay and card. PROBLEM... as a group we are not the most creative bunch of people, we agreed to simplify our designs in home it would look more effective in the end result. Rhiannon was hard at work making the film set and I attempted to make some flower resembling objects out of clay along with a toadstool and some fluffy bees.