August 24, 2010
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The Dinner Date.
Here’s my first stop motion video I’ve made with some sort of storyline behind it rather than the usual quick 10 second visual gag. Seo wanted to be in a stop motion video and I warned her it was a painstakingly slow process, but she was still up for it, so while I was running at Memorial Park one evening, I came up with a storyline loosely tailored to her interests. Tuesday of last week, I picked her up at noon and we headed off to the grocery store to buy ingredients and we came back and we storyboarded the whole thing.
Stop motion, or more accurately, pixillation, is difficult because I have to ask people to move very incrementally (most of my friends don’t have the patience for that), but Seo was a good sport about it all. We wrapped up shooting at 7:30 PM, seven and a half hours after I had first picked her up.
One thing most people say when they hear about me doing stop motion is, “Man, that’s a lot of work.” They say it like it’s a bad thing. But nothing great was ever created without patience. You’ve gotta be obsessed about something before you can get good at it. And while the final product isn’t perfect- there’s still a lot of improvement to be made- at least I’ve got a final product of some sort and that beats out all the others who just thought about doing something like that and never did.
Comments (16)
wAH that was really scary. I had to turn the sound off when she took out that meat…pretty cool
pretty cool..hope you guys got to actually eat the dinner after that.
pretty cool…very thought out
very cool! i like how the food moved around, but mustard on burgers?! really?
the music was really freaky. i like the onion part the best. oh and how the meat was all ground up after she tossed it in the steel bowl. wish my bowls would grind meat like that!
pretty cool! definitely takes patience. i couldn’t turn the sound on when i watched it, but maybe i should, based on the comments.
Seo is so good!! She’s got a great look!! Good job, you two!!
@joooolie -
haha, the music was from Inception. It’s been a running joke around my friends since the movie came out
@Phoi -
Thanks- I actually ate it and didn’t let anyone else eat it, because those cooked burgers were on the same board as the raw burgers. But it’s ok, no stomachache!
@oday1999 -
haha thanks! For something this time consuming, it has to be!
@SarahakaHungry -
Yeaaahhh, I think mustard on burgers is a texas thing. It’s good stuff!
@Soapie -
Haha yeah, the music was from I N C E P T I O N. You should watch it if you haven’t! it makes for good discussion (and the movie’s not scary)
@cathurynn -
haha i only timed it to sync with a part in the beginning and at the very end of the movie. If it syncs up elsewhere in the video, that was a happy accident
@BlessedBe3 -
Agreed with both!
The onion was amazing, but the wine! Oh, the patience that must have taken.
Well-done, Drew and Seo!
@sonnetjoy -
Thanks! That probably took too long to make haha. I haven’t had a chance to work on my next stop motion short yet, but one of these days…