PARTICIPATION AT THE MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE

One of the demonstrations i took part in at the Museum of Moving Image was the stop-motion station. unfortunately i didn't arrive on time to participate in the sound demonstration. so i took it upon myself to learn something on my own. i always sort of knew how stop-motion film worked. it was lots and lots of pictures taken one after the other to create the illusion of motion, or film. the station included a picture of a road, and a few wooden cut outs of objects, such as a car, an animal, a bicycle, and plenty of other fun things to include in your little film. Next to it was a note that said there are approximately 24 frames in one second of film, that means for every 24 pictures i shot, I only got one second of a film, i never realized how involved it was. Doing this really made me realize how much work goes into making a shot clip using this medium. at the station there was a camera above my head, i assume, because i couldn't see it, and a big red button that captured the image. the point was to move things around, slowly, and capture shots with every little tiny movement, so that after hundreds of shots it would seem like my little car was driving down this road and accidentally hit this bicycle, i ended up with a little clip about 10 seconds long. it was really fun to play around with it, but it really made me think about how many stop motion videos I've seen, and not realized how hard and time consuming it must have been. This demonstration was very interesting, i cant even imagine how much MORE work goes into making cartoons, where every single frame has to be hand drawn. The rest of the museum was very interesting too, I participated in plenty of other demonstrations and enjoyed them, as well as the exhibits very much.