Video & Sound Production: Final Project

22.4.2025 - 27.7.2025 / Week 1 - Week 14
Aw Wen Chia / 0368828

Video & Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Instructions

2. Task

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1. INSTRUCTIONS

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2. TASK: Animation

Trial:

For our final project, we could choose to either create a special effects video in a pair, or create a stop motion animation alone. I chose the latter because I hate filming myself, and I do not want to pressure my partner into filming themselves. 

Our theme for the video was tarot cards, I pulled the tarot card "The World", it being the fifth card.

Card 5: What is going against you (The main character's obstacle)

Fig 1, Tarot card reading

My interpretation: 

"The World" can be applied to lovers, and fear can lead to missed opportunities. That is why, do not give up, stick to your plan and have faith.

The story follows Pink, who is exhausted, but still refuses to give up and power through to get to their slumbering partner, White.

After making my interpretation and writing a short synopsis of the story, I started making my storyboard. I made the storyboard with the intention of using plastic models, and props made from styrofoam. 

Fig 2, Storyboard

With the storyboard done, I made a shortened version of it to turn in into a shortlist and compile the references, music that I am going for, equiments I will be using and more.

After finishing the slides, I started on the animation itself. I started making the props:

1. Picture
2. Styrofoam Cube and Balls
3. Platform
4. Things to prop the props up

Fig 3, 4, Progress

Then I started filming, I used a piece of paper to diffuse the light from my lamp, taped a piece of paper on my wall to use as a background, and used my phone on my tripod with a stop motion app "Stop Motion Studio".

Fig 5, 6, Progress

Then, using the app, I changed the timing and checked for continuity errors with the storyboard close by to use as reference.

Fig 7, Progress

And took a picture for the thumbnail and credits.

Fig 8, Progress

Then I made the backgrounds and impact effects for the video in IblisPaint X.

Fig 9, Progress

After finishing all of that, it was finally time to edit. I exported the stop motion video to After Effects and started sectioning the scenes to remove the background, then I added the background behind each frame.

Fig 10, Progress

Then I exported the video and imported it into Premiere Pro for music, sound effects I got from Pixabay, some slight timing corrections, and text on the video.

Fig 11, Progress

With the video now having backgrounds, music, sound effects, and text, it was finally done. 

I then uploaded it to YouTube.

FINAL ANIMATION:

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