8fps vs 12fps

For our film we spent a while deciding on whether or not we wanted to film in 12 fps or 8 fps. We felt that perhaps we should start in 8 fps and then alter to 12 fps so the audience is aware of the change to feel confused and disjointed by the pixilation at the start of the film where the audience is viewing the children's point of view. This uncomfortable feeling will challenge the audience's views of childhood being uneasy, however, it is still a more exciting option that adulthood because of the bright colours, expressing that this vibrant lifestyle is more rewarding is the more difficult path than the boring adulthood circle.

When we practised putting this idea into action we realised that it partly looks as though we made a mistake while filming, but also it was difficult for us as animator to alter our brains into animating on a different frame rate, and would repeatedly make mistakes while animating after we swapped over the frame rate.

So after we decided to pick one frame rate to animate in throughout the entire film, to decided which to pick we did some quick test shoots in both frame rates.

We felt that 8 fps, although it had a nice pixilated effect it was too jiggered, so we decided on 12 fps, as it is also what us as animators normally animate in so we understand the timings and speed.