Snowmen Experiment

This is one of our first stop frame experiments. We used Jan Švankmajer's technique to create it, however we didn't want to use his style, because its too controversial, so we decided to turn our video into something more entertaining. We presented snowmen which were produced out of clay, just like most of the objects in Jan Švankmajer's videos. We mainly concentrated on the facial expression to that the video will be easier to understand. Overall, the idea is quite interesting, even though its simple. However, there is a lot of techniqal things we would have to improve to produce a successful video. One of them is the background. When we were taking the photographs, we took the from the wrong angle, so that unwanted objects appeared on the images. Another thing is the movement, it was quite difficult to control the movement of the snowball in the air and on some photographs, the audience can see a hand holding a hair which is attached to the clay snowball. Also, doesn't run smoothly. That's again because of the control of the movement. We never considered the lighting when producing the project and we used a sunlight, what caused changes of the amount of light.