Photography

New Year

We launched this new school year with one of the most challenging and difficult photography projects I have ever participated in. My first day back in photography, we are told to come up with an idea for a short stop motion film that conveys an emotion and then we are to present these ideas at the end of class. I teamed up with my friend Sarah. The first 5 minutes or so were filled with "Well we could, no nevermind" " What if, wait no" and "So do you have any ideas". I started to think about stop motion films I had seen on youtube and began to see if I pick out what made them interesting to watch. Then I began thinking of anything I had seen where they had to use at least one stop motion effect, and what did they use it for. My mind wandered in and out of the task I had been given. What effects would look cool in stop motion, why is my stomach growling, why can't we think of anything, I'm hungry, and the thought train wandered on and on. Then, out of the blue, I remembered a skittles commercial I had once seen about a man who had everything he touched turn to skittles. That was it someone that could make things disapear! Since we were in art class I figured why not have a quiet and solitary girl have everything she touches turn to sketches in her notebook. Some of the people in here could relate right? Sarah and I went to work to further develope the storyline. When it came time to present the ideas and vote on the ones we wanted to turn into a short film, nearly everyone overwhelmingly voted for ours. I don't think it was necessarily because it was the most creative, but I think it was the one that everyone could visualize the best. The class then congregated into two groups to begin planning how we wanted to present the idea on camera. Overall I was very happy with the group I was in. Everyone was eager to pitch in ideas and help out. We had a few bumps along the way, and opposing views became known, but it wasn't anything we couldn't recover from.
The shooting process took way longer then I thought it would but each scene went faster then the first as we worked on. The editing while grueling at times, but forever and a day later we had our final product. We watched it over and over pointing and laughing at funny faces people had made and minor faux pas we hadn't thought about at the time.
Overall I am happy I got to be apart of this project and am proud of the hard work my group and I put into it.