Stop Motion Assignment - First attempt

Being good friends with my partner in this project meant that we were constantly discussing what we were going to do with our project, passing ideas back and forth throughout April and composing all our ideas together. We final decided that we would try and do something simple so as not to make things more complicated than they needed to be but also portraying our message clearly. We came to the decision of doing our stop motion animation using a white board and board pens. By drawing on the white board it would be a easier to rub out and show our characters moving, it would also mean we didn't have to make anything before hand other than what we were actually going to do. We were able to set up the white board so that is was upright and made it easier to draw upon, we also used an ipad on a stand as this meant we could use the software imovie which is where you take photos and it turns it into a movie for you. We also decided our project should be about bullying. The overall drawing process was incredibly tedious, it took us a very long time and didn't look as tidy as we wanted it to, however were more interested in portraying the message and we never said we were artists! At the end we had a short movie and were happy with how it turned out, the only problem was that when we tried to export it so we could put it on our blog it didn't work. Apparently the file was to big which meant that it was taking to long and the software didn't agree with it. So all our effort was completely wasted and we suddenly formed a hatred for stop motion animation. Luckily Mandy was able to record it for us but we were so disheartened and didn't see the point of showing something that wasn't to the best of our ability.