richhinton

I’ve been a fan of stop motion videos for a long time now, there’s just some so magical about them. I’d been toying with the idea of creating a stop motion video of a fashion model posing, lit by the same flash lights that I use for fashion photographs. I took the plunge on Tuesday night and decided to have a go at creating a test video to try out the technique and it went very well. The shoot was located at the Civic Center multi story car park in Wolverhampton, with Rebecca Fisher as the model. We got some regular shots done first, then moved on to the stop motion trial.

After three initial trials to see if we’d got the lighting right and to get Rebecca used to moving a bit then hold for 5 seconds to give the flashes time to refresh fully, we managed to produce a half decent set of 250+ pictures which looked like they would produce the effect I was looking for.

I used Windows Movie Maker (free with XP service pack 2) to put the images into a movie sequence, then added credits and a music track over the top. The whole thing took about an hour to shoot (including the 3 trials) and then another hour in Windows Movie Maker as I hadn’t used it before.

I was amazed at how quickly Rebecca picked up posing for stop motion and will definitely have to create another video with her soon. I’d like to thank The Brokenmusicbox for giving me permission to use their amazing track Time