VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION/（Final project)
VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION/（Final project)
Liu Chengrui (0370930)
week1---week14
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Video and sound production
Instructions
1.Fresh Guacamole
Animation screenshot
Youtube link: Celebrate Elsa & Anna On Disney Adventure: Sailing From Singapore In
2025 | Disney Cruise Line (youtube.com)
2. Tokri
Animation screenshot
Tokri tells a story about relationships between people, often dealing with
themes of family, friendship, or tradition. Animation may be symbolized by a
simple object (such as a basket), carrying emotions and memories, making me
feel the deep connection between people.
One of the things that struck me the most was its emotional depth, showing
deep emotional bonds through the interactions between the characters, such
as love between family members, support between friends, or nostalgia for
loss.
3.UMBRELLA
Animation screenshot
"UMBRELLA" revolves around the themes of loneliness, protection, and
relationships. The story uses an umbrella as a symbol to convey the emotion
of seeking protection and warmth in a difficult situation.
In my opinion, the story uses the umbrella as a symbolic prop, an important
prop that carries the emotions of the characters, can symbolize protection,
warmth and shelter, and at the same time express a desire to seek refuge in
difficult times.
Week 7
Our team was asked to shoot two stop-motion animations, clay animation and paper-cut animation. I thought I was not good at making clay, so I chose paper-cut animation.
In the preparation stage of shooting, our team bought enough materials to make the characters and backgrounds needed for the paper cutting. Then we collected the paper cutting and prepared to shoot.
During the shooting process, we encountered a lot of trouble, such as some parts of the paper cut is too small to run everywhere. Fortunately, however, the results are more satisfactory.
The final collection of photos taken
Final project - stop-motion animation
Week 8
During the independent learning week, my team member LIN ZHI YUAN and I
discussed the preliminary task allocation of the final project, and
finally we decided to shoot a stop-motion animation about the protection
of Marine ecological environment.
Below is our brief synopsis and the reference for making
animations.
synopsis
reference
Week 9
In this week's class, Mr Martin showed us two ways to make stop-motion animation, namely Pr and Ae, and showed us the detailed operation process.
Week 9 Slides
I chose to use Ae to make my stop-motion animation, but I ran into trouble during the production process. When I followed Mr Martin's tutorial, I found that my pictures could not be imported into the sequence. Then I consulted Mr Martin and finally found that the format of the photos was wrong.
The photo format is HEIC instead of JPEG
Fortunately, I successfully solved the problem under the guidance of my
husband and completed the production of two stop-motion short films.
Clay stop-motion animation process
Paper-cut stop-motion animation production process
Clay stop-motion animation
Paper-cut stop-motion animation
In addition to completing the above tasks, my team member Lin Zhiyuan and I
continued to push forward our final project, and had a second discussion
after class, and finally determined the storyboard of stop-motion animation.
Week10
In today's class, Mr. Martin showed us a video called VFX, which is mainly
about how to make a video of a hand bouncing figure. This part is a little
complicated, so Mr. Martin demonstrated it several times and recorded the
screen.
Week 10 Slides
Production process
During the production process, I worked step by step according to the video recording sent by Mr. Martin. There were some problems in the step of matting the characters, but the final result was good.
VFX editing
Week11
At the end of the 11th week of classes. My partner Lin Zhiyuan and I decided to shoot stop-motion pictures.
Before shooting, we cut the paper cutting elements into the shape we want.
Make stop motion animation photo footage link：
Week12
In this week's group work, we worked together to complete the editing task of stop-motion animation.
As for the process of video editing, I think there are still quite a few challenges. We first thought of using Adobe AE for video editing, but during the production process, some photos often become large and the video looks very weird.
After that, we decided to use Adobe Pr to make stop-motion videos.
After importing the photos I took, I chose to modify some parameters of the preferences to suit my stop-motion animation.
Adjust the “Media” option
Adjust “timeline” options
resize
After that, I select all the photos and click on the nested option to make it a whole sequence.
“Nested” option
Then, adjust the duration of the sequence and the playback speed.
adjust the duration of the sequence and the playback speed
When this is done, I import the audio prepared in advance and try to cut out a suitable piece of audio using the “razor” tool.
Use a “razor” tool to cut the audio
Finally,export a stop-motion video.
export a stop-motion video
Reflection
This stop-motion animation production revolves around the theme of "whales are polluted by garbage and die". I chose stop-motion animation as a special form of expression, trying to vividly present the story of whales and the ocean through frame by frame changes. The whole process was full of challenges, but it also brought me a lot of new harvest.
In the pre-planning phase, I spent a lot of time on script development and storyboard design. I hope to convey the harm of Marine pollution to the audience through simple pictures and smooth narratives.
Stop-motion animation is achieved by shooting frame by frame, which requires the movement of objects in each frame to be very subtle and precise. However, in the actual shooting process, the props, background and light in the scene are easy to move slightly, which leads to the incoherence of the picture, which brings great challenges to the shooting. For example, in the process of moving the whale model, sometimes accidentally deviated from the original track, and it needs to be adjusted and re-shot repeatedly.
Despite many difficulties during the production process, I felt extremely satisfied and proud when the animation was finally completed. This experiment gave me a deep understanding of the charm of stop-motion animation, and also taught me how to better plan and execute a creative project.
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