Creative Camera Use

We wanted to use as many different creative techniques as we could when filming our video.

Some of these we achieved, and they are as follows:

Stop Motion Animation:

We wanted to use stop motion for this part of the song, so you can see life from the child's perspective.

This stop motion animation was drawn by a group member. The characters and love heart, are all detachable so it is easier to move them. There was more than one copy of each character made for this process, because we wanted them to blink and cry. It was quite a long process to create this effect, but the results overall were very pleasing.

Another camera effect we used, was a time lapse:

This involved the subject standing still in a busy high street, with the camera rolling. We filmed about 20 mins worth of this. In the editing process, we sped it up, and it looks like everyone is walking past really quickly. We did it to give the effect of time passing by really quickly, but everything is slow for her. This technique posed several complications: The day we were filming, it was freezing cold, windy and slightly raining. This meant it was harder for the subject to stand still because of the cold. Also we had to put a cover over the camera to stop it getting wet.