collaborative stop motion - wow..

sineadw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eqSZSO_sSE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Procasinator

Clever. Very cool.

Kintarō Hattori

That is..... rather excellent.

BlastedGlute

It's alright I suppose, seems like a lot of effort to not even have them images tell a discernible story. Unless I missed something, seems like a random collection of images :-/

sineadw

It was more the effort that I was wowing. My head hurts thinking about the planning. Would be cool to do something a bit more focussed though

artyeva

my god, such an easy concept - but yeah, also a lot of effort.

pity the stop-motion-within-the-stop-motion wasn't some sort of narrative though - bit of a waste of paper otherwise.

dakar

Same here. I got bored after a minute, and hung on for another 30 seconds or so in admiration of the effort and co-ordination of it all. Then I gave up

BlastedGlute

Ok I don't even think it took that much work. If you shot a video at 60fps, edited it in after effects to get the kind of style you wanted,segways and such. Then just printed every 10th frame, numbered the pictures 1-500 and walked around a busy city taking pictures one after the other. There you go. I really don't think this was very difficult or inspiring.....

sineadw

Getting the framing and composition right for each shot would be a bit of a headache for a start. You think the 'original' shots were video though? I guess that would make it a lot easier. Hmm.. mulls ideas over..

artyeva

well yeah, i mean to construct it isn't difficult at all - but it still takes *some* effort walking up to that many people and asking them to hold a shot and framing it and then editing it all together. unless i actually had something to say or was being paid by an ad agency i don't think i could gather my lazy ass to that extent.

sineadw

It could be really cool with the right idea behind it though. I might just have to sit down and draw something up.

artyeva

you could frame it easy enough - piece of acetate with the perimiters of the frame and the position of the photo marked on it, assitant holds it in front of the subject, subject gets into the frame, assistant takes away acetate, snappity snappity. you could even do it by eye i'd say if you were doing lots in a row, it's not seamlessly perfect.

sineadw

You've just signed yourself up as first assistant

artyeva

done

but you come with the concept, the narrative, the camera and gear, the editing equipment, the materials, the blather to stop strangers, right? i just hold the piece of plastic. and the camera bag. and maybe at at stretch i'll go for the coffee. maybe.

AnCatDubh

at 1:38

Kilkenny, Guinness, Dude with *ahem* top o' the mornin' to ya Irish hair....

/wonders......

BlastedGlute

You could get 5 people to go out and get 100 pictures each. Wouldn't take that long. Each person would have tasked to them 1/5 of the overall project. All pictures to be saved in a folder on their card so there'd is no sorting. Drag and drop them all into a time-lapse builder or something similar. If you used live view for your picturres you could use the on screen grid system to line up each shot perfectly. Ruling out the aforementioned blue Peter effort with card and tape to line things up. Then allow a crop on each image by around 8% so you can perfectly frame the images over each other regardless of where the victim/volutneer is standing in frame. It's really not that difficult, or in my opinion, worth while.

sineadw

That would assume my camera has live view

Actually, I've been thinking about this, and I have something in mind. Will need to plan though, as it's a bit more elaborate. We'll see..

katiemaloe

Hey Sinead, thanks for sharing that. I think its deadly and fun. You'd be so delighted with yourself when it comes together. I kinda like the idea of doing it with 500 different photos rather than stills from video. Could be really good craic out on the street getting volunteers etc... And I like artyevas "blue peter" acetate idea too just because its a bit more hands on than lining them up on a screen.

Brain now thinking of various other ideas / adaptations with this.....

Count me in if you need any assistants.

the_syco

sineadw wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eqSZSO_sSE

Very nice. I wonder if everyone here had a picture taken of them holding up a picture of a blue card, could something similar be done?

GhostInTheRuins

sineadw wrote: »

Getting the framing and composition right for each shot would be a bit of a headache for a start. You think the 'original' shots were video though? I guess that would make it a lot easier. Hmm.. mulls ideas over..

Nah I wouldn't say that they were video. It looks like they got each person to hold up three or four frames, so three or four pictures of every person. If that's what you mean!

It's a great idea though, pity it's not slightly more interesting.

sineadw

the_syco wrote: »

Very nice. I wonder if everyone here had a picture taken of them holding up a picture of a blue card, could something similar be done?

Green screening can be a bit messy (I'm assuming blue is the same..) as you have to be careful to get even light etc. I'm picturing the pp too, and I reckon it'd just be easier to use the photos.

Rew

Framing looks very accurate id say it was done in post production, cropping each shot to to place the photo correctly

Hugh_C

sineadw wrote: »

Green screening can be a bit messy (I'm assuming blue is the same..) as you have to be careful to get even light etc. I'm picturing the pp too, and I reckon it'd just be easier to use the photos.

wouldn't matter - you'd just track the inserted vid using the four corners and even a rough key off the green would work for the fingers. It's kind of a shame that the narrative in the piece above isn't a bit more compelling tho.

melekalikimaka

I have toyed (no pun intended) with a danbo stop motion for a while but tbh the sheer scale of shooting anything worthwhile is daunting, A few of us here have Danbos, we could come up with an idea and split the work up over a few of us, could be fun?

.Longshanks.

melekalikimaka wrote: »

I have toyed (no pun intended) with a danbo stop motion for a while but tbh the sheer scale of shooting anything worthwhile is daunting, A few of us here have Danbos, we could come up with an idea and split the work up over a few of us, could be fun?

Interesting....

melekalikimaka

.Longshanks. wrote: »

Interesting....

1. stop motion video of danbo
2.upload to youtube.
3. ?????
4.Profit