reflection free shoot/stop animation film

Looking at my freely shot images was a great exercise. It was a slightly strange experience to look at the connections that you have semiconsciously created with your images. While I was aware of what I was doing while creating individual images, I was completely unaware of an overarching trend. I feel that this was a great exercise in that it helped me learn more about my individual style, which helps me in creating future images.

The stop animation film was a very interesting process. While I am happy that I collaborated a good deal with my partner, it also became apparent that collaboration has its drawbacks. Specifically, I really wanted to reshoot the final scene, but ultimately did not because of my partner's wishes and time constraints. The timing and organization of this project could have been better, but we were the guinea pigs and it was an exciting experience. I would recommend, at the very least, a meeting with the music class at the beginning of the semester just to touch base and get ideas flowing early. I think that this would help ease this frantic rush to get things done at the end. But I did think that this was a great project, it has been my favorite project so far. Given that collaboration had some drawbacks, it was very satisfying to see my partner and I's vision come together synergistically.