While I've been away (Tim) the rest of the group (Hannah and Alex) has been assessing the different characters we could use for our stop motion parts and concentrated on testing these with short movies. Not wanting to rush into using plastic models such as Playmobil I suggested using plasticine a common material in stop motion because of the freedom of movement they can exercise and the vivid emotion you can recreate with them which all in turn liken them to human characters and will ultimately help the audience connect to them.
The test is very much the same as the others, a few seconds long with a tiny narrative and around 50 photos taken. To make the character I made a small wire frame which resembled a human figure and applied the only plasticine derivative I could find at school: Clay. Although clay may act like plasticine in theory its properties become weaker and weaker over time through drying so this test was purely to see how quick and efficient I could make a stop motion film and then to see how realistic it looked in comparison to Playmobil.
Overall the test showed that it was possible to make a wire frame and a basic model but it took too much time and would hinder us while filming because the structure is just too weak and the detailing would take up the majority of our time. Its better to use a model with a consistent face and figure to then challenge us to find emotion in the characters by using different camera angles.
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