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Written Statements:
Busy Bed
Composition: After playing around with the composition in my first stop motion video, I decided that all of the stop motion that I was doing needed to be framed horizontally so that it would fit the frame. I liked framing it like this because it allowed me to work the frame left to right and work with asymmetrical balance. I did this so that the pillows could emerge from the bottom corner in an almost unexpected sort of way, because at first, we think that we are only watching the bed be made.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted this theme for this project to be about chores that complete themselves. I really like the old fashioned film feeling of these stop motion videos and so I wasn't too worried about every transition being really smooth. My goal is to have people wish that these were real. I want people to watch the video and think..."I wish my bed made itself" or "I wish my laundry would fold itself".
Method: The way I went about this, required a lot of help from my boyfriend. I set up a tripod, framed the scene and then handed my wireless shutter release remote to him. From there, I nudged everything here and there for each image while he hit the button. It was a lot of diving into the scene and then jumping back out so he could snap the photo. I lit the scene with the fan light fixture as bright as I could because I knew that I was going to have to shoot slow with the f-stop I was using. I chose a higher value for my f-stop because I didn't want to have to worry about focusing on whatever was the highlight in each scene. Everything was in focus at all times, except for in the end when I purposely went out of focus for the credits. This was a repeated process from what I did with my Christmas tree one and I really liked it and felt that it added closure.
Motivation/Context: My motivation for this film came from the fun that I had with my Christmas tree project. I wanted to continue this exploration, but with household chores. My motivation also came from those commercials with Kelly Ripa that I believe are for Whirpool or something like that, where she just does all of the chores with the snap of a finger. I love that magical feeling and the fact that everything feels "alive".
Lively Laundry
Composition: After playing around with the composition in my first stop motion video, I decided that all of the stop motion that I was doing needed to be framed horizontally so that it would fit the frame. I liked framing it like this because it allowed me to work the frame left to right and work with asymmetrical balance. It worked well with the laundry video because with the action going on in the lower part of the frame, it feels like we are looking down on it happening. Only thing that stinks is that not many people fold their laundry on the floor, but then again, not too many people have laundry that folds itself either.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted this theme for this project to be about chores that complete themselves. I really like the old fashioned film feeling of these stop motion videos and so I wasn't too worried about every transition being really smooth. My goal is to have people wish that these were real. I want people to watch the video and think..."I wish my bed made itself" or "I wish my laundry would fold itself".
Method: The way I went about this, required a lot of help from my boyfriend. I set up a tripod, framed the scene and then handed my wireless shutter release remote to him. From there, I nudged everything here and there for each image while he hit the button. It was a lot of diving into the scene and then jumping back out so he could snap the photo. I lit the scene with the fan light fixture as bright as I could because I knew that I was going to have to shoot slow with the f-stop I was using. I chose a higher value for my f-stop because I didn't want to have to worry about focusing on whatever was the highlight in each scene. Everything was in focus at all times, except for in the end when I purposely went out of focus for the credits. This was a repeated process from what I did with my Christmas tree one and I really liked it and felt that it added closure.
Motivation/Context: My motivation for this film came from the fun that I had with my Christmas tree project. I wanted to continue this exploration, but with household chores. My motivation also came from those commercials with Kelly Ripa that I believe are for Whirpool or something like that, where she just does all of the chores with the snap of a finger. I love that magical feeling and the fact that everything feels "alive".
