Personal Project - Shoot Two - Work Diary

For my second shoot, I wanted to create another stop motion animation for use in my final project. I stuck with the method of keeping the camera stationary while i move around my environment, however, I decided I wanted a slightly different rural environment, therefore I decided to shoot while passing through the seaside town of Dartmouth on a boat.
 The images that make up this stop motion animation were shot using an aperture of f8 and a shutter speed of 1/125. I shot at a faster shutter speed and a higher f stop than in the previous shoot, which is clear from the animation, as there is less motion blur and a wider depth of field.

I created this stop motion animation using premier pro CC.
To create it, I first put the series of images into the media bin, meaning I can then work with them. Once I had done this, I then dragged them onto the timeline. However, this plays them for five seconds by default, and I wanted them to play for just one frame. To change this, I simply selected them all as one on the timeline, right clicked and went into "speed/duration". Once in this menu, I simply clicked and dragged on the duration until it was the smallest duration possible, which is one frame. Your animation should be complete; I rendered mine in 24fps as a 1080i .mov file.

The animation features a wide range of colours throughout. There are some saturated shades of green shown in the grassy hills in the background of many of the images; this could represent the natural growth of a rural environment. However, there are some very muted shades of blue and green shown in the water the boat is in, which can represent the loneliness of living in a rural environment with few people around. The images have a wide depth of field as they were shot using an aperture of f8, which I felt was effective because there is a lot happening in each frame of animation, with there being something to look at in the foreground, midground and background, and use of a narrow depth of field would mean some of this is not clear to see. Because it was shot on a boat, there is a range of textures shown, specifically on the water. The images towards the beginning of the animation have some smooth textures on the water in the distance. This contrasts to the later images, which displayu some rough tones through the wake the boat is making in the water.

Personal Project - Shoot Two - Final Result

Personal Project - Shoot One - Work Diary

For my first shoot, I wanted to create a stop motion animation which will be used in my final project creating a short film consisting of stop motion animations of documentary images of both urbanized environments and rural environments. I chose to move myself in shooting to create motion rather than having moving subjects and mount the camera on a tripod.


Here is my stop motion animation. I shot my images using an aperture of f 3.5 as this creates a narrow depth of field that I felt works well with the motion blur of the images. The images were shot using a shutter speed of 1/80.

I created this stop motion animation using premier pro CC.
To create it, I first put the series of images into the media bin, meaning I can then work with them. Once I had done this, I then dragged them onto the timeline. However, this plays them for five seconds by default, and I wanted them to play for just one frame. To change this, I simply selected them all as one on the timeline, right clicked and went into "speed/duration". Once in this menu, I simply clicked and dragged on the duration until it was the smallest duration possible, which is one frame. Your animation should be complete; I rendered mine in 24fps as a 1080i .mov file.

The photos that make up the image were mostly successful. The animation displays a wide range of tones, as the images where taken at around sunset. There are some lighter tones shown on the vast amounts of grass and greenery in the foreground and midground, as well as some darker tones shown in the stormy sky in the background. The image mainly consists of saturated greens, which can represent growth and harmony in a rural environment. However, there are some muted greens in the shadows of the image. The images mostly have used a narrow depth of field, focusing on the foreground and leaving the background out of focus. I feel this was effective as it adds to the blur effect created, which creates a sense of fast motion. Each image was frame similarly, creating a sense of depth; there is a foreground in the bottom of the frame, and the midground being above it and the background above that. This, I feel, makes the animation look more linear and smooth.

Shoot 3 - Shoot Plan

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Shoots 1 and 2 - Shoot plan

Complete W/C 31/10/16

High Key Lighting - Image Bank

This was taken with the camera in landscape position, which is uncommon for a high key studio shoot. The background was likely overexposed by one stop, as it is fully whited out. The subject has some very light highlights on their skin and has little hard shadows coming from their body.

This is different to the previous image, in that it has been shot in colour. This means there are more shadows shown than in the other image; this may have incorporated a fill light to fill in some of the shadows.

 The image above is an example of extremely high key lighting. The lighting has removed a lot of details on her coat, as well as softening the features of her face. Since her coat is white, a lot of it has blurred together with the white background.

This is another example of a high key black and white image. Despite being black and white, you can still see the high key lighting has softened her features and create a very tonally light image.

This has made use of more than one light, as you can see soft light hitting the sides of her face, which , unlike some high key portraits, doesn't white out all of her features. There is also a lack of shadows altogether, as light has been applied evenly to the front and sides of her face. 

Personal Project - Shoot One - Stop motion Animation

Low Key Fashion - Image Bank

This was taken using one spotlight with a blue gel. It was likely that the photographer chose the blue gel as it matched the model's blue lipstick, therefore creating a theme of the picture. The light was positioned to her right and shined so that a hard shadow is cast under her chin.

This is similar to the previous image in that the photographer has kept to a colour scheme; that being bright Red. This is shown through the red lipstick and the red gel on the spotlight. Again, the light has been directed to the right side of her face, this time casting a square shadow.

This was from the same image series as the first image, as it features the same model and the colour scheme of blue. The light has been positioned differently however, this time with the light covering the top half of her face, which casts a hard shadow under her chin.

This has made use of two different spotlights, which are facing either side of her body. There is a blue gel on the light facing her right side, and a pink gel on the one facing her right, creating a two tone effect. Because her face is side on to the camera, it has cast a split colour effect vertically down her face.

This image is lit in a much more low key way than the others. There is only one gel spotlight, a blue one pointing to the right side of his head. It has been lightly lit from the front too, most likely using a soft light.

Multiple Exposure - Straight Images

Low Key Fashion - Straight Images

Low Key Lighting - Definition

Low key Lighting is a studio lighting technique that used a spotlight  to channel the light into a narrow beam, which you focus on a part of your subject. It creates a hard shadow.

Here is an example of a low key beauty photo. The light has been focused on the subject's forehead, meaning some hard shadows have been cast across his face, specifically under his chin and nose.

High Key Lighting - Definition

High Key Lighting is a lighting technique that involves using mid-tone greys through to bright whites. It enhances the highlights of somebody's face. In a high key photo, there is a noticeable lack of contrast and hard shadows. The images are generally very bright.

Although this has been converted to black and white, it is still clear that it was taken using high key lighting. The background has been lit using backlights and overexposed, most likely by two stops more than the key light. The Key light was either a beauty dish or a soft light, as the lighting on the subject's face is very soft. I can guess that in this image, a fill light wasn't used, as the shadows made by her face were minimal and not very full.

High Key Lighting - Technique

If you want the background to be overexposed, you will need to make your backlights brighter, meaning the background is overexposed and the subject in the foreground. You will need to measure the light levels using a light meter.
You will shooting using f 8, which is what your key light is set to, therefore you must set the backlight to f11 or f16, as this is one or two stops more exposed than the key light.

Sequence - Image Bank

This sequence photo appears to have been very difficult to capture. As this has been taken at sea, keeping the camera perfectly in the same place would have been difficult. It was likely that this was shot with the photographer on a helicopter, as this would have been able to hover perfectly still, unlike a boat, which would have shook with the sea.

This photo sequence has been made up of a large amount of frames; it is likely that the photographer put their camera in a very fast continuous shoot mode when shooting this sequence. The result is there are lots of close together frames that make up the final image, and many of them overlap, which is uncommon for a photo sequence.

 Unlike the previous image, this has been made up of very few images; it appears to be four, and although this is the case, it was likely still shot on a continual shoot mode with a very fast shutter speed, as the car would have been moving very fast. There is also a large gap between each frame, as each image of the car has a large distance from the last one.

 This has clearly been made up of four different photographs; you can see that the first image is the one in which the boy jumps off of the rock and that the last one is when he's just hit the water. This was likely taken using a shutter speed of 1/250 or faster, judging by the fact each shot has had a freeze-frame effect, and the subject was moving quite quickly.

Judging by the pace of a motocross rider taking off of a ramp and flying through the air, these images were taken using a very fast shutter speed; my guess would be 1/1000 or over. It was also shot using a very fast continuous shooting mode, as the space between the frames is surprisingly small considering the speed the subject was moving at.