04/11/15
Today we completed taking all of the photographs for our stop-motion animation. We used the Brechtian technique of placards to show Perseus's gifts and to label the "sleeping Medusa". One scene we initially struggled with this lesson is the scene when Perseus cuts of Medusa's head. Our first thought was to use photo-shop to remove my head from the pictures, however, this would have been to time consuming and we wanted all of the photos to be real. We then thought about using a placard saying "Medusa's head", but we thought there must be a more effective way of portraying this scene. We finally decided on using a black piece of thick cloth material to represent Medusa's head. The material was rolled up in the middle to form a round shape, whilst leaving the ends down to look like hair. This idea meant that all I had to do was lie down, facing away from the camera, with my head tucked down as far as I could so that the camera would only show my shoulders and possibly neck. The "material head" was positioned next to my shoulders to look like it was my actual head on the camera. All of the photos have been put onto an animation now. Next lesson, we will work out our script for narrating the animation. We have decided that we would like to narrate to our audience as if we were museum guides explaining an exhibition, however we just need to work out exactly what it is we shall say.
