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The Moving Image

GIF

My plan was to have pictures of what the Stanley Cup has looked like through out the years and what it looks like today. I then wanted to show Champagne bottles popping, because when a team wins the Stanley Cup they spray champagne. I ended by including the NHL logo and the "Because it's the cup" slogan. My gif is about how the Stanley Cup has grown since it was first introduced. Also it is about the NHL playoffs, the celebration of winning the cup and how hockey players will do anything to win it, because it's the cup.

3 tips

  • Keep the camera and set in the same position

  • Don't Make it too complicated

  • Keep the character's movements consistant

Stop-Motion Film

Definition

Stop Motion Animation is a cinematic process, or technique used to makes static objects appear as if they were moving.

30 Second Video

My plan was to make the video have something to do with sports and have some comedy in it. I then came up with the idea of making the video about someone shooting a basketball at the net, because I would be able to incoorporate different camera angles easily. I then decided to add some comedy by making the shooter miss the net. What my video is about is a teen getting ready to take to shoot the basketball and there is a big build up of intensity from the music and everything is very serious. Then they end up missing the net and decide to quit, which is where I added the comedy with the fail sound effect.

Other stop-motion animations

These stop-motion animations are form the Youtube series "Klay World". I like them because I think they are funny and also all Klay World episodes are different and creative. I really like the different sound effects and personalities of all the different characters.

The story

The lumberjack gathered his gear and headed to the thick forest on the outskirts of the town. He woke up that morning thinking that he might make some easy money on his day off from his job at charter forestry. He figured that he would go to the forests that surround his town and cut down some thick high quality trees and sell them on his own. Driving down the road he was thinking about how much money he would make and what he would do with it. When he reached the outside of the town, he parked his truck on the side of the road, gathered his chainsaw, ax and other gear and headed into the forest. He walked and walked until he found a tree that he thought was suitable. Our lumberjack, cut down this tree. Soon that tree turned into another tree, and another, and a another. The greedy lumberjack cut down many trees that day. The sun was now going down and the lumberjack was filling up his trailer with his wood. He stacked the last log on the pile and took count of his items. He realized he had forgot his chainsaw. Lumberjack  went back into the forest and got his chainsaw. While he was searching for his chainsaw, he began to hear noises in the forest, they unnerved him, but he is a grown man, and this did not scare him. While he was walking back to his truck he was ambushed by a clan of bears. They threw him across the forest floor and roared at him. They did not harm him, they only cried for the loss of their forest. The lumberjack realized his error, and went back to make peace with the bears and planted saplings so that the forest might come back one day.

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