Making a Claymation video.

With Claymation, I've learn that you have to be careful with Morph's (Or anything you make with Play-Dough/Clay) arms, legs and head because it can be easily broken if twisted too far. In this blog, I'll explain how I made a Claymation in my Media lesson.

First of all, I gathered all my equipment up like always. My equipment consisted of my Play-dough/Clay Morph, a Sony hand held camera, a Firewire cable and a tripod. When I'd gotten all of the equipment that I needed, I set it all up (e.g. Put the Sony camera onto the tripod, stood up the tripod properly, plugged the FireWire into the iMac and the Sony camera and then placed Morph into the shot I wanted) and then opened iStopMotion to start taking shots one frame at a time. After finishing the shots I wanted, I saved it as "Morph and top hat joy" so that I could tell which iMovie video it was.

 

I then went onto Final Cut and used a Voice Over to sound a bit like Morph. I also used Voice Over to make it sound like he had actual footsteps (Footstep noises) so that it added more effect to the video. Once I had finished with Final Cut and saved it, I then Exported it to QuickTime Player and watched it again to see how my Claymation had turned out. Safe to say I was happy with it!

Finally, after I'd finished watching it through I uploaded it onto YouTube and renamed the video to "Sir Morph". The purple writing "Sir Morph" below is my video post on YouTube, feel free to put feedback on the Claymation!