Evaluation of our work

Even though overall we were exceptionally proud and happy with our final stop motion animation, we did have a few problems along the way and also when watching our final piece realised some elements we wish we had changed, or do differently in future, they were;

> Lighting, due to the amount of time we spent filming and taking photos, the lighting throughout the day changed e.g. evenings darker than morning in the class room.  We tried to overcome this problem by blacking out one window using an A3 piece of card.  This did not solve the problem completely but it did minimize it.  When watching our film on the day of assessment the slight change in lighting conveniently occured when the sun was setting and moon was rising, I felt this ended up being extremely effective after all

>Moulding clay flowers, to make several flowers that were only slightly different to ensure a smooth flow of movement when creating our animation, we overcame this challenge by being patient and taking our time

If I was to re do this assignment I would aim to make my story line more complex, maybe more flowers growing at once or even a more detailed background.  I thoroughly enjoyed doing this project  

Our Final Piece

Our final piece of stop motion animation

After alot of hard work and time, our assignment is finally completely.  We are very proud of our work and overall happy with the end result

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.