Week 11 - 26th March - Learning stop motion

Learning Stop motion:

Book: The Advanced Art of Stop Motion by Ken A Priebe

    1.    Digital Cinematography

The set up:

What camera type:

- DSLR

- Desirable to have video live feed> connect to laptop to see animation

- Canon EOS 5 Mark 2 best available

- Stop motion software> dragon frame, stop motion pro

Saving images as RAW instead of JPEG increases quality> helpful if editing in post production

Set all setting of camera to manual

-       Focus

-       Aperture

-       Shutter speed

-       White balance

-       ISO

ISO (light sensor) is usually 100 to 200

Aperture and Shutter speed

-       Think about depth of field (if your animation has this)

Most stop motion operates on the area of

F11 with shutter speed of ½ to 1 second

White Balance – playing with different moods

This should defiantly be done if using JPEG but if using RAW can edit in postproduction.

Think about motion blur!