Experiment-Animations

My next experiment was to get a series of photos of Bongo running and then make it into a small animation. To get these photos, I made Bongo wait until I was ahead of him, then I would make him run in front of me so that I could get a series of photos.

A problem that I had whilst doing this animation was the sun. Because Bongo wouldn't sit still for long, I didn't have a lot of time to sort out my settings on my camera which meant that these photos were too bright. To solve this I sorted out my camera settings before I took any photos.

With this animation, the background was slightly different each time and so I had to photoshop the background each time to make it look the same.

Another problem that I had was that my drive mode isn't very fast so I would get big gaps in the series of photos. I thought this was bad whilst I was taking the photos, however, in the series below, there is an equal gap between each photo. This meant that Bongo was in the same position in each photo which I think is good because it shows a dog's positioning when they run and it is continuous.

To extend my animation idea, I tried to get Bongo running towards the camera so that he would get closer as the series went on.

This got me thinking that I could put these photos in a small animation where the last picture got replaced by the next one in the series. 

                                                   

I found this experiment extremely helpful becuase I caught some good series photos but also individual photos becuase I could take a pick of which moment I wanted to be an individual photo. This was also good becuase it taught me a lot about the movement of dogs which is my next experiment and led to my final outcome. I t also made my decision to make a film definite.