DECIDING ON WETHER TO USE THE ANIMATION

Having watched the raw footage of our animation and experimenting with it in our music video, Lauren and I concluded that it would be better off without this aspect. This is because of many reasons. For example, the lack of clarity and quality of this clip alone acted as a hindrance which would’ve broken the stream of well defined footage and moreover interrupt the audience’s concentration. Also, the position of the camera was slightly different each second, therefore making the animation appear unprofessional, which is not what we intended to do. Lastly, the animation itself lacked a clear correlation with the piece of music and thus, inevitably, we had to exclude this element of our planning from our final piece.

FILMING THE ANIMATION

In order to film the animation at a professional standard, an art a level student and friend of mine named Laura Imzayin kindly offered to participate in this process. She became the artist for our animated images. We filmed this over a two hour time slot in our school media suite, which provided us with high quality lighting and a convenient amount of space The camera was placed on the highest level of our tripod in order to create a birds eye view effect. In order to make the image seem animated, we filmed each item that Laura had drawn in separate frames, after she had drawn them, thus creating the illusion that the images were appearing on the screen without any reason. 

Here are some photos of the filming process...