Thursday, 25 April 2013

My Final Animation.


My first initial idea was to put the lyrics across the screen via a piece of paper for them all to stay on. After having major dificulty of keeping the lyrics onto the piece of paper and in the same place, my computer crashed and I unfortunetely lost everything. So I had to come up with an idea as fast as possible so I was still managed to complete my animation on time, I thought by holding up the lyrics this was the fastest way I could complete it in time, and also as the lyrics were so small i would be able to hold them up to the camera closer so they were easier to read.
This is what i came out with:


I think that it turned out a lot better than i expected, but was very time consuming.
I think that if i were to do it again i would make sure that the writing was still so wasn't a little blurry, i would also change the song so that it wasn't so fast so that the video didn't have to have so many lyrics in. I would also change the font as i think if i had more time i would be able to find easier to read font.
Over all i am pleased with my final animation and think this it is in sync with the lyrics and thought it worked really well.
I took 387 pictures which i then had to duplicate so that they were in sync with the voice on the song, which was fairly hard as the song was quite fast, I had to get help with the photos and the music as I chose a fast song and found it really difficult.

To start my animation I used iStop motion to take all the pictures with the lyrics on,
This is a print screen from the internet of iStop motion
 I used this software as it is the easiest software to create a cut out animation on.
I then used Sony Vegas to first of all sync all the lyrics up,
This is a print screen i fount on the internet of Sony Vegas:
 
I did this by making all the pictures last longer than a millisecond to last as long as the lyrics on the song, this was fairly hard as i had to listen to the song over and over again to sync both up together. I then had to  sync the song at the start when the lyrics I started with which was 0:25 seconds in, I then had to make sure that all the lyrics were in sync with the song.

Thursday, 18 April 2013

My Own Animation

To prepare for my animation I first had to find out what lyrics i was going to use, I then had to go on the internet and find a website that generated words into 'ransom notes' which was the website i found. I then had to put all the lyrics into it to create the words for me to use.
I had to print them as big as possible for them to fit on a big enough piece of paper, which took a while to get them big enough for the camera to be able to see what they said.
I have printed out all the words and cut them out and sorted them into order of the song, i have grouped them into which verse and the chorus. This makes it a lot easier so that next lesson i will be able to start to produce my animation by starting my animation by using iStopMotion. So far i think i am on track to completing my animation in a few lessons time.