Filming!

On the first day of filming we encountered many problems. We set the camera up on a C-stand and the FTU set up a light on the rig above the set. Originally we tried to use many of the smaller lights but found they cast too many shadows in different directions so we decided to settle with the one. While taking test photos, we found that the camera lens would not focus properly, however, as this was only the half day we booked we had only planned to set up ready for the next day so it wasn't too much of a big deal. This day was more about the preparation, and practise shots than the actual full shoot, so a lot of the time was spent dressing the set.

Once we got the new camera and began properly animating we realised that animating in 12fps would not work, as the speed of the piece was far too fast, so we decided that 8fps would work better.

As we progress with the filming of our piece, it all began to take form and visually looks amazing! Although some scenes seem to be animated a little fast, this is due to us all animating together, sometimes we had to make sure we each had an individual objects to animate or the next person might do it different to the previous, but over all we where happy with the progress.

After James put the film together for us the Sunday night, we did notice that the end scene with Imogen walking looked wrong in the loop. We decided that the following day we would re film that part.

We struggled to correctly animate that final walk as we wanted it to express Imogen's emotion, or lack of emotion. Finally we decided that as the start of our piece already included a walk cycle that perhaps it would be more interesting to include something different. So we came up with the idea of hanging Imogen from the cloud above her, and that would be the section for the adult loop.
I am really happy with the change as it created a much more exciting effect than just returning back to the original walk cycle.

These videos are the unedited format, we have yet to edit the colours and images in the pixilation.