Two Doctors | Evaluation

Evaluation 

I decided to create a clever stop motion video which tells a bit about me. One of my main interests is Doctor Who, so I linked it to that. I had an idea about making a stop motion video by using some Doctor Who figures I own. They would look and talk about my YouTube Channel. I noted down on paper possible ideas and which way the story could go. Which figures? Phone or SLR? Duration?

Then I created a story board which explained what camera angels and what would happen in the video. I drew some quick sketches and wrote some text to show this. Later I then thought of a script, what would the two doctors say? I had to think about what they would actually say in the show, that and I had to try and get their speech right. After I wrote the script I had a greater understanding about what I need to do next, that brought me to filming the actual video. 

The start of the video has the TARDIS (the Doctors space ship) landing. I did this by taking a picture of the background, then taking a picture of TARDIS in the background. When I edited this, I faded inwards together the two pictures. This will look like the TARDIS is actually materialising. One thing I had to make saw was, when taking the two pictures it had to be in the exact same position.

I added sound to the video, I recored my own voice and a friends voice, (Matt Smith and David Tennant). I recored with an audio recorder, which I then spoke into with a 25cm distance to get a nice clear sound. Also I took sound effects from the Doctor Who episodes, such as the TARDIS doors opening and closing, footsteps, TARDIS Humming, TARDIS take off and landing sounds and sparks. Also I added two music tracks from Doctor Who and edited them one after the other. The first track I added is called, 'Stormageddon Dark Lord of All'. I added this one because the music suited the atmosphere. Jokey and awkward sounding. The last track I used is called 'The Majestic Tale', this is a well known track from the series. I added this at the end of the video as the TARDIS dematerialised. As for camera angles, I knew what I was looking for because I did GCSE Photography and Film Studies. I used mid shots, close ups, high angles etc. 

Overall I am very pleased with the final outcome. I especially like how the TARDIS fades in and out, it looks very smooth looking. Also good music choice which goes well with the scenes and connects with the audience. What I didn't like was how the dialogue is quite hard to hear at the end because the loudness of the music and TARDIS sounds, (1:01).  I also wished I placed the laptop in the middle when the TARDIS takes off at the end, (1:09). If I could improve something for next time I would make the audio balance levelled out at the end, (1:01).

I uploaded it to YouTube and had great feedback from my viewers, such as "This is amazing, for a first attempt at stop motion! Really funny overall too!", "That was a pretty good little piece. Great stop motion movement" etc.  I am pleased with the comments and hope to do more stop motion in the future.