StopMotion - Final video

made by Vikram and EJ

Making stopmotion with lights!

I was working on this assignment with Vikram. He is really good at photography so I could learn a lot from him. He showed me Sprint comercial which is a light stopmotion and suggested to try that. As soon as I saw it, I was really interested in stopmotion with lights and wondered how to make it.

At first, we took a lot of pictures with lights. I drew some shapes such as circles, stars etc. and he took pictures of the lights with fast shutter speed. And also I took some picture of him. We drew a lot and got many pictures but after uploading them we figured out our mistakes. We should have taken pictures with overexposure instead of faster shutter speed. With overexposure, we could get a drawing made of lights. So we tried it again. We set up a duration of the camera exposure as 4sec through 10sec, and drew again with a lights. I had a lot of fun! The pictures of lights were awesome. After we got many pictures, we imported all of them to the Final cut. We added a music and a title and finally our stopmotion is completed!

Response to Understanding Comics

It was very interesting learning about comics in a comic book. The author can vary much with contents because he is in a comic book! And I can follow him easily because he is in a comic! By reading this book, indeed, I could see comics with a different angle. And I recalled the moment that I read a comic book. When I read a comic book, I could be involved more than reading a novel. On the other hand reading a lot of letters in the novels, I felt like being a third person who saw the story outside of the story. The author says that we are so involved in a cartoon because of a comic is ‘ICONIC’. I thought this is the most important reason why there are a lot of people who like comics. I really agree with this phrase: "There is no life here (here is a face icon) except that which you give to it." According to him, comics totally depend on audiences.

Also I could learn comics’ behind rules such as time frames that I have never recognized reading comic books. I was very interested in his discussion about the differences between American comics and Japanese comics in the chapter of time frames.

I like comics because I can follow it easily. In every story we can understand its meaning easily if it has simple formats. But it is very hard to simplify. I think comics are really great works that embody the simplicity very well.

Comic Assignment

** Oh! Crap!! ** by EJ & Stella

multipled images

Three final images.

Amanda - Chris -EJ



Chris -EJ -Amanda




EJ - Amanda - Chris