Video and Sound Production: Final Project

27th October 2023 - 8th December 2023 (Week 9 - Week 15)

Asma' Binti Mohd Jailani / 0354335 / Bachelor of Mass Communication (Honours) 

Video and Sound Production

Project 2 // Project 2A Production Shoot Video & Project 2B Tikto/Insta Video



For our final project, we were tasked with creating a stop motion film using any medium of our choice. We were also given the option to either complete the project solo or in a pair, with the latter only having to do a minimum of 30 seconds, while those in pairs would have to make a film that was a minimum of 1-minute long. 


For my final project, I teamed up with Alefiya Hassanally. We decided to go with paper as our stop motion medium, as we wanted to do something different from the usual clay. 

When we were first brainstorming ideas for our stop motion project, we were playing around with the idea of making a parody of a fairytale, but we were worried about it being too complex for just 1-minute. At some point, I randomly suggested the idea of making pizzas the main characters of our stop motion film. Alefiya was into it, and so we just rolled with it. 

Our first idea for the pizza schtick was a parody on the Ugly Duckling, where a plain cheese pizza who is often left unpicked at a pizzeria in favour of the other, flashier pizzas with more toppings, is finally chosen by a little boy. We wanted it to be a feel-good kind of thing, where the overarching message was that you don't have to feel inferior to others, as someone will love you as you are. 

We presented our idea to Mr Martin, and he said it was too boring as there wasn't any twist :')

So me and Alefiya went back to the drawing board. Over lunch, Alefiya suggested that we make it morbid instead, where the plain pizza ends up taking revenge on the other fancy pizzas that made fun of it. I liked it a lot, and so that was the version we went with. 



PRODUCTION PHASE

The filming of our stop motion film took place at my house, over the course of two days. On the first day, we spent most of the day cutting out our props and pizzas, before shooting half of the footage needed for our film. 

Figure 1.1: Day 1 of Stop Motion Shooting

We completed shooting the remaining footage needed on the second day. 

Figure 1.3: Shooting the final scene of our stop motion film on Day 2

Figure 1.3: End of Day 2 Shooting


POST-PRODUCTION

During the editing stage, we decided to nest the footage according to their respective scenes, for ease of editing and trimming. 

Figure 2.1: Nested sequence for Scene 1 (interior)

Figure 2.2: Nested sequence for Scene 1 (overview)

For the orange glow, we added a mask with a layer over the oven window, before adding all the necessary sound effects and music. For the announcer's voice, Alefiya found an AI voice generator online that could replicate the voices of WWE announcers. After sampling three different announcers, we decided to go with Jim Ross. 

Figure 2.3: Final Timeline with Video and Audio Tracks

We used two video tracks for the stop motion film footage and the colour correction adjustments. As for the audio tracks, we ended up using four audio tracks in total. Track A1 was for dialogue, Tracks A2 & A4 for SFX, and Track A3 for music. 


FINAL PRODUCT

Figure 3.1: Youtube Link to Finalised Stop Motion Film Submission 







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