Here it is. The actual establishing shot! Woo!
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Stop Motion: Establishing Shot filmed!!
This is the setup for the establishing shot. It also happens to be the segway to the main story at the end, so I can use it twice! I tried lighting everything from the sides with cardboard cut filters to make the lights thin strips. That didn't work. It hit the mountains and cast shadows. I couldn't light from the front because it would flatten everything. I had to have the light of the sun come up from the bottom to properly replicate the sunrise. I had cotton clouds made and they didn't look too bad, but I prefer the clean cloudless sky to something that looks distractingly out of place. Also, I planned on having the clouds attached to a single giant piece of plexi so I would just move that at increments across the background. Solid plan, but once I had the entire scene canti-levered over a bed I didn't want to add the extra complications. This is a three light scene. One light towards the back that only lights up the moon, one light for the background and a color changing LED strip that lights up the mountains.
You can see the makeshift weight I attached to the bottom of the tripod for stability. I filmed this 4 or 5 times. Each time the final shot would sway left and right with the cranking of the tripod. The final shot I had to use the live toggle feature on the Dragon Frame 4 remote on each frame to correct left or right. It took more time but it worked!!!
The final picture shows the cardboard strip I attached to the tripod with the pencil as an arrow to know exactly how much to lower the camera each frame. This worked great, but as a beginner, the final video seems a bit too abrupt when it starts and stops it's movement.
... I'll get better with time.
I'ts incredibly satisfying being at a stage where I get to sit down and actually film with all the stuff I bought! The next step is filming the segway before I tear down this scene and start building the next one!
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