A Day In Ohio
For this week’s assignment of creating a stop motion moving picture film, I originally had planned on creating a short film showing the four seasons. But living in Ohio, I decided to title it A ‘Day’ in Ohio, because it is normal to see almost every season all in one day in Ohio. And I also chose to make a cute, video for the recent holiday. My video first starts off with it snowing outside, and the resident’s tiny head poking out of the front door. It then continues onto spring, and summer, all while the tiny character debates on whether he’d like to leave his home just yet. Autumn comes around and so does a friend, and the homebodied resident is finally seen to be leaving the house, to go trick-or-treating (with his superhero costume accompanied by a cape). The movie then ends, wishing the audience a Happy Halloween.
Instead of creating a stop-motion by cutting hundreds of pieces of paper to form tiny little bodies, or creating something using photoshop, I decided to draw the scenes on a chalkboard, using a white chalk marker, and erasing and redrawing after each picture. And then taking the pictures using PhotoBooth on my computer to stabilize the camera, since I did not have a tripod handy. The song choice, titled For Mimi, comes from the YouTube Audio Library (For Mimi by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/).
Creating a stop-motion picture, instead of taking a traditional photograph gives the opportunity to the viewer to see and watch how the character(s) develop throughout s story. It is still considered photography but looking at the series of photographs with minor changes to suggest movement.