My first attempt at still frame animation

Well here we go!

I'm not the most technical of graphic design students so I've decided to post some of my experimental work up here an see how my computer skills progress over the year, amongst the body of graphic design I plan on pilfering from just about anywhere I can find inspiration, (trying to stay on the right side of the law.)

So this piece of work came really from not wanting to stand up in front of a group, and I have no idea how to work powerpoint! So a stop frame animation was on the cards, the brief was a 2 minute presentation of our summer work, (mine was the vowel 'O' and pick 10 facts about it.) I thought I'd start with this, as its my first time I've attempted a stop frame animation, I cant tell ya how much fun it was right from the start, taking the pictures wondering how it was all going to turn out! to messing around with the music and trying to make it all sync. Mind you I'd be lying if I didn't say that turning off the Ken Burns on all the bloody frames was tedious, (must find an easier way for that.)

Later on in the week I was scanning through the Metro on my train ride to college (forgive me I was really bored!) and I found what I thought was a little gem. An exhibition in Bradford, at Impressions Gallery www.impressions- gallery.com there seems to be a fair lot going on all over Leeds and Bradford check out the website. The exhibition I caught was Composure: Lumen HD Short Film Commissions. There were eleven new short films by artists from the region exploiting the detail of HD and exploring the tension between the still photograph and the moving image, which i thought could be interesting and come in handy after loving the stop frame animation. Unfortunately i couldn't get any pictures of inside but i thought it was an interesting building very contemporary inside and out, I think Bradford is having a lot of regeneration going on at the moment. (which isn't a bad thing!)