Our first stop-motion shoot at CAICC, this past Tuesday afternoon!
Setting up in the backyard of the centre we shot the opening scene of the kid's animation about how their experiences and likes and dislikes at CAICC.
Important points during the set-up were:
1. Barricading the camera from all sides to minimise the risk of it being knocked or nudged in the excitement of the shoot.
2. Running through the Dragon-frame interface with one of the older kids who did most of the camera control throughout the shoot.
3. Weighting all the puppets down with lots of plasticine around the feet, which also acts as a 'glue' to stick them to the table.
4. Providing each puppet with at least 3 mouth-shapes so that they can be swapped in and out in the moment of shooting to create the illusion of the puppet 'talking'.
5. Checking that some puppets have movable eyes that can look in different directions or blink.
6. Shooting a few 'test' frames as an introduction with the kids, so that they got a feel for how much to move their puppets.
One of the older kids, Deimar, brought along an extra set of characters and storyboard that he had created during the week: a conflict between Rey del Raquet (King of the Raquet) and Jalepeño, which results in Rey del Raquet's head exploding!
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