1st Bletchley Amicus

With half an eye on the upcoming Promise Auction (more on that shortly) we started our new multi-week project – devising, directing, editing and producing our next video.  We spent the first 30 mins reviewing other peoples’ videos for inspiration – if you have a spare 30 mins, take a look at:50 Incredible Stop-Motion Animation Videos

First we needed to test the technology – a proper, but old, webcam.  So we had a quick think and came up with something suitable and set to work.  Here’s the result:

Our idea didn’t quite come off as we’d hoped, and sufferered from poor camera quality but it served as a proof of concept.   Onward…

Next we thought we’d try something we’d seen in one of the other videos which made us laugh out loud.  The biggest challenge in the limited space was to get everyone behind the camera and out of the shot (except the three actors).  With that achieved we set to work with a second camera to provide better quality and a different perspective.  Here’s the results of our efforts:

Whilst it still has the same image quality issues, it worked so well.  We’ve definitely decided that we’ll be using human actors in our next project.  We’ll be back to it in a couple of weeks when we’ll have had some time to think about what we’d like to go, and it will give us a chance to sort out the quality issues.  This week was such fun we can’t wait to get started.

The following video isn’t stop-motion, but I decided to include it here with the title: the most beautiful chocolate bunny massacre you will ever see:

If you have any links or videos you’d like to see included in the weekly Amicus update, let me know.

Next Week: Post-It Note Mosaic