Lotte Reiniger

My Short Film Scene

Task 1

Pixilation Animation

Our animation was a person driving their car (well, a chair) and crashing. Originally we wanted to have two people racing each other but we were unable to do that as we only had two people.

We put in sound effects, like the car seat belt, to make it seem more realistic. And the scream was more for comically purposes. 

I like how ours came out I thought it looked really cool but I think if we did smaller movements and took more pictures it could've looked more realistic. But I'm really pleased with how it's turned out!




This is an example of this kind of animation. It shows a man walking across America. I really like the idea of it and someone walking over a long distance but I thought it seemed too broken up.




This is an animation for an advert and I love how simple it is but looks really complicated. The hand is switching so it looks like it's a weird shape or not right, and I love how it confuses people. There's no story involved with this video it just looks cool and that's why I like it!

Compared to other types of animation I think in a lot of ways pixalation is the easiest. It's easy to move to how you want it to be be because it's a person in the animation, so you can just tell them how to move. It also allows a lot more creativity because you can experiment with the camera angles, which is something you can't do in cut out animation. And unlike claymation there's no risk of a persons arm falling off or having a significant change in their appearance.

BBC Vox Pop

90 Second Film Script

Genre - Drama/Comedy

Males aged 12-24

My idea is to have 2 gangs set out to fight one and other. It’s all going to be very dramatic and show them preparing to fight etc.

The film will end with a stand of with the 2 gangs. As the tension rises they both pull out their weapons at the same time. But no one actually has weapons they’re all using their hands as guns and they’re making sound effects with their mouths etc.And that's the scene I'm doing.

I want there to be roughly five people on each side, one gang being red and one being blue (through the clothes they wear)


EXT.                       PLAY FIGHTING

In an alleyway (or narrow street) in London two gangs stand opposite from each other, with the two leaders up close and face to face with each other. The scene starts with a shot of the two leaders.

Red Leader

So this is what is has come to

Blue Leader

I guess it is

RL

Good luck, I think you'll need it

BL

Don't tell me what I need

RL

Well I think I just did

BL

Oh my god shut up

RL

You shut up

blue gang member #1

Er guys?

Both leaders exchange evil looks and walk back to their sides, then they both unexpectedly turn around and draw their "guns"(hands)

Both leaders signal for their gangs to start attacking each other, and the gangs both run towards each other, shooting and throwing grenades but all with their hands.

There will be different people fighting, so in pairs or maybe in threes. There'll be sound effects of gun noises over and dramatic music.

The last shot will be fighting. The dramatic music will go and so will the sound effects.

Myself and Catie will be the leaders of the gangs and the gang members will be anyone I can get my hands on. Anton will be filming it.

My inspiration for this idea is from a TV show called Spaced where they play fight. I thought it looked really funny so I thought I'd make mine seem like it will be a series fight but in reality it's just silly. 



Equipment Needed:
A Nikon Coolpix
SD Card (16gb)
Red/blue clothes

Number	Shot Size	Camera Movement	Description
1	Mid Shot	Subtle Zoom	Two Gang Leaders Staring at Each Other
2	Close up	Still	Red Leader Talking
3	Close up	Still	Blue Leader Talking
4	Mid Shot	Still	Blue Gang Member Interrupting, show them in amongst the other gang
5	Close up	Still	Two Gangs Opposite
6	Close up then mid shot	Zoom Out	Red Leader turning away
7	Close up then mid shot	Zoom Out	Blue Leader turning away
8	Mid Shot	Pan Right	Red Leader talking then the camera pans to the gang behind
9	Mid Shot	Pan Left	Blue Leader summoning gang behind them
10	Wide Shot	Pan Right	The two gangs running towards each other
11	Mid Shot	Still	People shooting at each other
12	Close up	Pan	Throwing a grenade, some people being blown up
13	Close up	Still	Someone reloading their gun
14	Wide Shot	Still	Everyone Fighting

Equipment List

Tripod

Camera

16gb SD Card

           Risk Assessment

RISKS	PREVENT
Getting rain water on the camera	Ensure it's a dry filming condition and cover up camera with water proof materials
Falling over whilst pretending to fight	Prepare actors with what they need to do and point out uneven flooring
Over Enthusiastic Fighting	Make the actors follow the script precisely
Cold Weather	Wear Jackets

Evaluation - Cut Out Animation

Strengths of cut out animation:

• Anyone with paper cutouts and a camera can do it
• Can create a whole world
• Has no limits

Limitations of cut out animation:

• Takes a long time to do
• Has to have a lot of frames to look smooth
• If a mistake is made it's hard to recover

For our cut out animation we decided to make people do a dance. It's a popular video meme which means that it's people doing the same thing but changing some aspects, like where it's filmed or what people look like.

Here's an example of someone doing the harlem shake.

At first we wanted to set our scene in an office, and have the workers there dance, but we couldn't find much office equipment in the magazines we were cutting out of, so we decided to change the scene to a house.

We first filmed it but the paper didn't take up the entire screen so we re filmed it. We initially wanted to have loads of characters but we decided to cut it down to just 7 because it's easier to move only 7 people rather than 20!

I think what created looks good. The character movements are smooth and I think we've created a unique style. I particularly like the head bouncing through the scene it creates a comedy aspect to the scene. The dance is also in time with the music and the music is well suited to what we were trying to achieve.

Although it was good some things we could have done better. You could see the shadows of our hands in the scene so next time we should hide our hands away and be aware of the shadows. At one point you could see my finger which again shouldn't of happened. Another thing we could've done was to make the movements more accurate, and we could've achieved that by making smaller movements when taking the pictures.

Compared to pixalation animation cut out animation is quite difficult. The main problem is the fact it's all in 2D. This makes it harder to make a scene because there's no depth in the picture so it's all in your face. Another problem is that the people can't turn around they only look left and right, so it requires more thought when moving characters around the set.

Overall I would say our scene is good but could do with those improvements to make it even better!

Film Or TV Company

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GIF Animatiomn

For this GIF I found a contact sheet which is one image containing a series of images. I took a screen shot of the different images and used a website to put the images together. With the right speed it now looks like the arrow is spinning.




For this GIF I played a video and paused it, I then took a screen shot and played it for a split of a second and paused it again, taking another screen shot. Doing this on repeat I finally finished and used the website to put the images together.

Eadweard Muybridge was a photographer who used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs. He decided to take multiple pictures of a horse running and then put those images together to make it appear like the horse was running.

He was the first person to do this and it was before film or tv so it has a significant  place in history.