Straw House Animation

Whilst editting our film of Ben and Ian we realised that we needed a way of setting the scene for the documentary and also a way to finish it. We decided to construct an animation using the animation sweet at uni. We had never used the programme or editing sweet before but we gave it our best shot and we learnt a lot in the process!

Here are some shots of us in action:

The animation is a stop motion animation where by photos are taken in between each time I draw a small part of it. It was drawn in charcoal on white paper, we wanted to keep it simple but we thought the charcoal would add an earthy touch. First the ordinary terraced houses appear, like the many you see in brighton and we thought they were relevant to what Ian sais about current living conditions in Brighton. The straw house then magically appears being inspired by ben's house it has rounded windows and an organic shape. A seagull then glides down and sits on the roof of the straw house as the title of the doccy appear below and then our names.

All we need to do know is fit it into Final Cut pro and put music to it!