I knew I wanted to do a stop motion for one of my videos, so I decided I would do it by moving things around on my desk. I'm pretty happy with the outcome, and aside from being a pretty long process (I was taking pictures for about 2 hours), it was relatively easy and very fun.
I started off by taking pictures of things moving from place to place. I used PhotoBook on my MacBook because that's one of the only available cameras I have. The thing about stop motion is that you have to move things just a little amount, a lot. This was rather tedious, but I really like the end result. The hardest part was when all of the objects make a circle and then disappear from the desk.
After all the pictures (about 145 of them) were taken, I uploaded them to iMovie where I added in the music, messed around with the timing of each picture, and added in title screens. I was a little disappointed with how short the video ended up being - I didn't know so many pictures were required for stop motion! Looking back at movies that use stop motion (Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas; Corpse Bride, etc.), I now realize movies like that must have taken so so long to make...it really blew my mind.
I'm pretty happy with the outcome of my project and hope you enjoy it too. Let me know what you think!
