Final Stages

I am in the final stages of this final project process. I have nearly everything completed and hope to get it done tonight. I just have a few more things to polish before handing it over to Dr. West. All has gone pretty smoothly during the project except for complications I had with my camera. For some reason I could not get the depth of field that I wanted. I'm not sure if this was because I didn't use the correct f-stop or if it was just the environment I was set up in. Another issue I ran in to was that I had to stray away from the original stop-motion plan and only have parts be stop motion. I realized that I needed to stop at some parts and narrate so the steps in between narration are stop motion while the narrated parts are still-frame. All in all I am pleased with the way it turned out.

Progress

In the week leading up to and including Thanksgiving break I made some real progress on my project. I recorded all of the stop motion animations and most of the narrations. I hope to have the animations cleaned up to where they look professional and all of the narrations done in the next few days. I have my group of people to test it on and they are free all week so I hope to have tried this instruction out on them by the end of the week. Hope to have good results.

Week 1 Post

My project:

One thing that I have always struggled with around the holidays is wrapping presents. No matter what I do I always end up with more wrapping paper on one side and then the end result does not look good. I can't be the only one who has had this problem so I plan on teaching people the steps to wrapping a present properly. I will probably have to end up using PowerPoint to present the end result but the plan is to take a stop-motion video of how to wrap a present. I will make one long video of all of the steps that will be shown at the beginning and again at the end. I will then make stop-motion videos of each specific step that are more detailed and show the technique used to accomplish the task. By the end of the tutorial, the user should be able to wrap a present with ease and have it look professional.