There were a few problems along the way when we were making this stop motion animation
- The time it took to mould each flowers seemed to take a long time, so Rhian added clay onto one flower. This seemed to work much better and looked more effective.
- Lighting was probably the most difficult factor to control and caused a few problems for us. First of all we wanted the night scene to look dark but we tried a few things such as putting card on top of the camera, which didn't work. In the end we just left it as it was, also the light outside the classroom had an effect on the video too; as the sun moved away from the window the room naturally got darker.
- At the end of this video we wanted the original flower to have grown a substantial amount, but when we tried to enlarge the flower it became increasingly difficult for the flower to stay up. After a while we found a small thin stick that we put the flower against and made a triangle structure at the bottom for it to stand up straight, this worked and the flower stayed up long enough for us to take more photos.
- I found that the computer programme Zu3D was relatively easy to use as Mandy had showed us how to use it previously, however I think that it would have been better if there was more programmes available to us which could test us more and enable us to do more also.
- When we presented our final project to our class and Mandy, on the interactive whiteboard it looked quite blurry. I was disappointed as it didn't show the exact detail of the scarecrow and the scenery. However, this seemed to be the problem for all the other groups projects.
