Trail Day - 09/05

Robyn and I thought after making most of the gingerbread men that we should test out some of the sequences before doing it for real, this would allow us time to work out any technical issues.

Here is the To Do List we created for the afternoon:

The first thing we tried to do was get the gingerbread men to stand up on their own long enough for us to take the pictures we need. Our solution was putting small pieces of blu tack on their feet.

It worked really well, however I was afraid that the blu tack would be visible as we had we used large pieces. I then kept halving the amount of blu tack I used until I found the balance between using the smallest amount possible but still having the gingerbread men stand up.

Once the problem of how the men were going to stand up, we need to set up the camera. While Robyn sorted out the gingerbread and took control of the camera and setting it up on the tripod. Before we started the shooting I took a trial shot without changing any of the settings on the camera, it turned out too dark (image on the left), I then changed the aperature and shutter settings giving a lighter picture (image on the right).

After taking the photographs for the test clips, we wanted to check that the pushing gingerbread we made would look as if they were pushing the ingredients that we had just tried moving across the counter. 

 I think they will work really well, we just have to be careful with the blu tack to make sure as little as possible shows.