1. Evaluation of summer stop
motion project
TOM BUTTERWORTH

2. Evaluation of summer project
 How did you use technologies to create a product(just
give a brief outline)
 -digital cameras
 -uploading to slide share/ YouTube
 -embedding in blog
 How did these technologies enable you to be
creative?

3. Digital cameras
Digital cameras and SLR high resolution cameras where used to capture the
images, for stability the use of a tripod was used, this made it easier to capture
images with out moving the camera.
For my project I used a Nikon d3100 high res camera, this was to get the best
picture quality and made it also easier using the burst setting, this enables me to
take pictures just clicking the button or holding down for multi shot.
Using a high resolution camera proved o be more difficult then I thought as each
picture would require a different rate of focus, also the light balance in the room
was hard to keep the same making some pictures darker than others.

4. Uploading to and
Uploading stop motion to slide share makes it easier to watch your slide
show, this is also easier to access .
Uploading to YouTube would give people the chance to view my
animation and also make it smooth, make the animation run easier.

5. Embedding in blog
The idea of embedding my animation on a blogging site makes it easier to show work and preparation I have put in, this
can show step for step how and what I have done.
This is my video done
through slide
share, uploaded to
Blogger.

6. How did this task enable us to be creative
This task allowed us to do a stop motion on anything, this was purely a task to
show some imagination
Building a narrative made it quite hard but at the same time gave the piece more
depth
I decided to use a pool table as it was flat and easy to keep the balls still on the
table, making it easy and fast to move.
{Note: light balance isn't very good}

7. Ideas?
Me and my partner Sam...had quite allot of ideas such as someone playing the guitar, due to
problems syncing the music over the top I didn't go with that.
I also made a small test animation using a Zippo lighter, the proved hard with a moving background that
could not be controlled.
Also my idea was someone playing the drums

8. Where there any limits?
We had quite a strict time deadline, also the lighting balance could not be controlled, the auto focus
was hard to keep the camera in focus, also we did not have a tripod so I was left holding the camera
for 3 hours.