I recently entered this competition run by Sony/ They were offering the chance for three people to win a PSP with 20 games, by showing them what makes our world.
"All you have to do is create a video representing your whole world in your hands - by holding as many objects that represent you as you can while being filmed. Feel free to approach the challenge however you like, and if you know a few clever techniques with effects, then show them off! At the end of the competition a team of judges will review the entrants, and award the prizes based on a range of categories."
Competition Website
Sony PSP Website
My idea was to create a short stop motion and use some of my favourite possesions and items which make up my world and then try and animate them into something relevant to the competition. I decided to try and animated the words "My Whole World", so the clip shows a
Stick Man = Me/My
1/2 + 1/2 = Whole
The World = World
I then animated them to form the words in full and then used a force perspective (hands right in front of the camera) to show all the objects in my hands. Its not perfect as with most stop motion but it seemed to work okay.
I used the same stop motion method as I had for a previous film Entertain the Nation. However with this one I found that it was easier to start with the words in place and work backwards and end up with a pile of objects.
Once everything was filmed I uploaded the footage in Adobe Premiere and edited out as much as possible leaving me with a large number of 1 second clips, which were then reversed so the the words ended up at the end. I then added a piece of royalty free music called "Bad Ideas" from Kevin McLeod and lengthened or shortened some of the clips to fit in with the music. Once I was satisfied with the speed and look, I exported the project into After Effects and added a spot light effect to shadow out the edges of the frame which also helped to reduced some of the lighting fluctuations.
I felt the music gave the video a silent movie feel which kind of fits in with the jerky nature of the stop motion. I tried to add to this silent movie feel by adding an old black and white movie effect but felt it looked better in colour.
Music: "Bad Ideas" by Kevin McLeod
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, Adobe After Effects 6.5
Recording Equipment: Panasonic NV-GS70
Tutorials:
PhotoJoJo - I couldnt find any tutorials for the method I used, but the more common method is to use still photos.
Inspirations:
Wolf and Pig - This is one of the best stop motion videos I've seen, the creator used 1,300 printed pictures, must have taken ages but was well worth the effort.
Some of the other entries are really good, out of the ones I've watched so far these are a few of my favourites
The eventual winners were
Your Whole World in Your Hands by DrRulez89
My whole world in my hands by rasnep
My whole world in my hand by ceeyracatastrophe
"All you have to do is create a video representing your whole world in your hands - by holding as many objects that represent you as you can while being filmed. Feel free to approach the challenge however you like, and if you know a few clever techniques with effects, then show them off! At the end of the competition a team of judges will review the entrants, and award the prizes based on a range of categories."
Competition Website
Sony PSP Website
My idea was to create a short stop motion and use some of my favourite possesions and items which make up my world and then try and animate them into something relevant to the competition. I decided to try and animated the words "My Whole World", so the clip shows a
Stick Man = Me/My
1/2 + 1/2 = Whole
The World = World
I then animated them to form the words in full and then used a force perspective (hands right in front of the camera) to show all the objects in my hands. Its not perfect as with most stop motion but it seemed to work okay.
I used the same stop motion method as I had for a previous film Entertain the Nation. However with this one I found that it was easier to start with the words in place and work backwards and end up with a pile of objects.
Once everything was filmed I uploaded the footage in Adobe Premiere and edited out as much as possible leaving me with a large number of 1 second clips, which were then reversed so the the words ended up at the end. I then added a piece of royalty free music called "Bad Ideas" from Kevin McLeod and lengthened or shortened some of the clips to fit in with the music. Once I was satisfied with the speed and look, I exported the project into After Effects and added a spot light effect to shadow out the edges of the frame which also helped to reduced some of the lighting fluctuations.
I felt the music gave the video a silent movie feel which kind of fits in with the jerky nature of the stop motion. I tried to add to this silent movie feel by adding an old black and white movie effect but felt it looked better in colour.
Music: "Bad Ideas" by Kevin McLeod
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, Adobe After Effects 6.5
Recording Equipment: Panasonic NV-GS70
Tutorials:
PhotoJoJo - I couldnt find any tutorials for the method I used, but the more common method is to use still photos.
Inspirations:
Wolf and Pig - This is one of the best stop motion videos I've seen, the creator used 1,300 printed pictures, must have taken ages but was well worth the effort.
Some of the other entries are really good, out of the ones I've watched so far these are a few of my favourites
The eventual winners were
Your Whole World in Your Hands by DrRulez89
My whole world in my hands by rasnep
My whole world in my hand by ceeyracatastrophe
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