For my stop animation video, I decided to use my miniature Dalek that I got as a Christmas gift my my husband, and since Valentine's day was quickly approaching, I decided to give the video a Valentine's Day flare. I set up my Canon Rebel T2i on a tripod pointed at my kitchen "island" with a very narrow focus and I used one of my "daylight" lamps from my cupcake photo rig for filler light, as my kitchen is a little dark.
The first time I shot the photos required, I only took about 200 pictures. I took those images to Windows Movie Maker and set each photo to last 0.1 seconds. I was absolutely dismayed at the jerking of my camera and the less than smooth "motion" provided by these pictures. I decided to scrap those photos and reshoot. My second take had a little over 300 pictures and I was far happier with the result. I added music from SoundzAbound (thanks ECB and Badgerlink for giving Wisconsin residents access!) and added a title screen and credits in Windows Movie Maker.
All said and done, the project took about 3 hours to complete, including the upload time to YouTube. The time probably could have been shortened to a little less than 2 hours if I hadn't taken the time to reshoot the photos. For future stop animation projects, I would definitely want to purchase a remote clicker for my camera - there is still more jerk in the images that I would like, but that is due to me having to physically touch the camera to take an image.
For your viewing pleasure, here's "A Dalek-table Valentine".
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