First Scene, "Main character walking"

This picture shows the set and the characters for the first 5 seconds of the film. As you can see we made 6 cutouts of the main character and used them in the correct order to make it look as if the character is walking. This was important to us, as when we viewed past work, we saw that the character just "floated" across the screen and we didn't think that it looked very good. 

Bully's First appearance

In this scene we drew the background set and then, we drew 3 copies of the main character each one with different facial expressions. This was so that we could make our character blink. The character on the left has eyes with no pupils and we created separate pupils so that we could move his eyes around. We drew the bully's shadow and moved it into the scene gradually.

Bully "hero Shot"

In this scene the bully appears for the first time. We drew the background and then we drew the bully on a separate piece of paper. Then we used blu-tac to stick the bully onto the set. When we did the stop-motion we moved the sheet of paper to make it look as if the main character was looking up at the big, intimidating bully.

Running Scene

In this scene where the main character runs from the bully, we drew the scene and the character in different stages of the running motion.  

Dolly Shot

In this scene where the main character runs from the bully, we drew the scene and the character in different stages of the running motion.  

This is our dolly shot where the child is trapped, we drew everything out and ingeniously used paper and Blu-Tac to keep the character in position. 

Fight Scene

For the fight scene, we made the characters go behind a bin so that the children do not see the fight. We drew the set and the characters and cut the characters up as the moved behind the bin. For the part where the bully comes out from behind the bin, we cut the set, so that we could just move the bully without cutting him up, we realised that this is also what we should have done for the whole scene.

 

For all the scenes that we filmed, we put the camera on a tripod and put the scene on the table as this enabled us to move the characters around easily.

Test Footage

This is test footage of our scene, deciding how the characters will move, how the shadow (in this case played by a pen) will appear, and the child's reaction.

This is test footage of our dolly shot, we found that there were some potential challenges with this scene as it was difficult to keep the character still, however we managed to overcome this by using Blu-Tac.