Creative Making Week

As part of this week project we had to work in groups and team up with students from Graphic Design. Within my group we started talking about what objects we could use from our 'kit of parts' in order to create something to show on the final day. We came up with a number of different ideas, for example, making animals out of water bottles or paper clips, creating something that floats in order to make the object float from one side to another, making a solar system and creating a stop motion animation.
After this we decided to create a stop motion piece on one of the objects, the three objects we took into consideration were a paperclip, a sponge and a sock. Our final idea consisted of 'a day in the life of a sponge', as part of this we began brainstorming different storylines we could create and concluded that we would make it to be a love story as well as a sponge's nightmare as we wanted it to be scared of water/drowning.
The next stage of our preparation was making the sponge character using actual sponges and putting faces on them in order to animate them, we then began writing a storyline.

Figure 1 shows the two sponge characters and figure 2 is a picture from the stop motion.

Figure 1

Figure 2

In order to create our final outcome we set up a camera on a tripod and photographed every single move, we took several photos for each movement to try and create a flowing piece, however I feel that we could have taken more in order for it to be smoother and less jumpy. We then put it all together and added sounds and a voice over. The final outcome can be seen by following the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm5iG8WXoLQ