Maddie Gordon

In preparation for the exhibition, I printed off my A2 poster which describes what my invention is, forwarded my stop motion animation to the show reel and packed up my robot in a box full of bubble wrap ready to take with me! I got to uni early and helped Erin and Chelsea set up the exhibition. I then set up Mr Oil Sucker on his stand and pinned my A2 print to the board. The only challenge I encountered was that mr oil sucker fell over at the beginning and his head fell off, but luckily we had double sided tape to mend him! I then also helped them out with printing off everyone's individual little inventors invention drawings from the first day at the school. I thought the exhibition looked great and I am happy that Denzel liked what I brought to life!

Once taking all the images and looking through them, I felt they would work better in a stop motion animation video with music and sound effects! I also felt this would be more challenging. Therefore I asked a few of the fellow film students in my group to help me out with using Premiere Pro to put it together. I added the jpegs in and lowered the speed duration so it flowed well in a video. I then added sound effects for the oil being sucked up/poured, then its little tap being turned and also happy upbeat background music. I feel this added a lot to the video and I was super happy with the finished product. I also added a title page and credits page for the exhibition.

Once I had made Mr Oil Sucker, I was ready to shoot my stop motion animation for the flip book. I placed him in my kitchen, put my camera on my tripod and shot it bit by bit. I wrote out the instructions of what he was doing throughout on the board behind him with chalk. I felt it went successfully and now the next step is to put the images together in a flip book.