30th of Apirl 2013

 

 

 

 

The thread was tied around a small piece of timber so we could rotate the timber and change the height the doll would be positioned at.

In Order to ensure full movement around the stage i came up with a grid system of supporting the puppet. Inspired by how Claw machine move along a x and y axis.

Micheal went and got us Fish Gut as the thread we were using wasn't strong enough and kept snapping. In order to stop the fish gut from crossing and tangling i cut small groves and attached elastic band grooves to the wooden holder. IT was then cellotaped down.

Hoisting up the Doll by rotating the small wooden string holder.

Micheal reattaching the Dolls legs.

A photo of the not so safe weight on top of the rig we had made.

Elaine running through the movements we had to preform. To make sure we could do it.

We were setup and ready to film

Choreography

We got Nessa to model for us as she did ballet she also told us that the choreography list we had was mainly filled with what looked more like ice skating moves. So we remade our choreography

 

 

We then based the choreography off of this video and the jump off of this video

Filming

So we finally started filming

Because we had a zooming in shot i marked out the path that the tripod was going to be travelling forward on.

After recording the zooming in shot from a straight on angle the shadow and the puppet where in the shot this wasn't the desired shot so we setup to shoot it at a side angel. This in voled drawing a new path to the side of our old path. We setup the tripod in the desired location and drew lines alone the path that the tripod was going to have to travel.

We used blu tack to give us some extra support to our model.

Things to do differently

If i was filming it again i would make a tripod holder.

The handle of the puppet would be cylindrical in nature or maybe a cross shape.

Remember to move the spotlight with the model.

Film the stop motion in the right aspect ratio instead of cropping it