Filming Day One

I've begun animating my stop-motion footage and filming some of the live action work.

From the very start I encountered problems which I couldn't foresee. For example, at one point, I had to animate a figure switching on a kettle. However, the force required to push down the switch was greater than the force holding its feet to the floor, resulting in it falling over. I had to use thin thread to pull, and hold, down the switch between shots and to stop it from springing back up. This required more than one person.

I did manage to get some of the shots down. Unfortunately, it's difficult to see if they need re-shooting before I have loaded them into Premier Pro and edited them together. It is fair to say that it is much more taxing and time consuming than I first thought it would be, but we persevere!