Tim
For this stop-motion assignment, one thing that ran through my mind was micro photography. It was always fun to rescale small toys and gadgets to real-world size. I looked at my Hot Wheels toy cars on the cabinet and decided to do a fun chase between a racer and a police.
“The racer is chased by a police car. The racer turns left and runs into a street. He parks his car into an empty slot alongside the pavement in the wrong direction. The police car also turns into the same street, but the officer is too reckless to spot the racer who parked in the wrong direction. After the police car drives away, the racer drives out from the parking slot, makes a turn, and escapes in the opposite direction.
I expected this stop-motion video to run at 12 frames per second with 50 images. (They were insufficient, so I doubled the number of pictures in Take 2.)
Junqi and I worked together to set everything up. She made the street and pavement with black-and-white matte paper to reduce reflection.
To prevent unwanted movements from parked cars, we stuck them with tape.
Junqi took control of the shutter, and I designed the set for each image.
We followed the plot itself with no improvise and took 50 images.