Thursday, January 12, 2012

Stop Motion Reflection Questions

1. What is the narrative of your project? When is the moment of crisis?
The narrative to my project started with a man drinking a cup of coffee and reading a newspaper. Next, a superhero dressed in all blue appeared in the picture, shocking the man who was drinking coffee. After the blue superhero exited, a super villain dressed in all black came into the picture, and after he leaves the reader goes back to enjoying his comic. After that scene, the villain and superhero meet up at the Branson field and have an intense battle. The superhero get knocked to the ground, but recovers and knocks the villain out. After the battle scene, we go back to the man drinking coffee, with the comic at the scene where the superhero has defeated the villain making it parallel to real life. The moment of crisis was the battle scene.
2. How does the combination of imagery and music shape the mood and experience of the short film?
The combination of imagery and music explain the mood and experience by showing both a fun and intense music that goes along with the fight scene. The experience of the short film is both a realization of reality as well as parallel aspects of the fight scene.
3. What are the strengths of your project?
The strengths of my project were the focus of my photos, there weren't any blurry pictures. Also the ability to improvise the comic with iPad was very imaginative and worked to our advantage of the plot. I also thought the fight scene was very well executed.
4. If you were to do another one, what would you do differently?
The things I would do differently in the next video would be to not procrastinate on the pictures, as well as, a thought plot to what my partner and I were doing. Also, I struggled with FInal Cut Pro because it was difficult to structure my video into one cohesive group of photos.