Big Orange Box

This weekend I built a simple wooden camera dolly for filming stop motion animation (photos of the dolly in upcoming posts). Also began painting the residential street set. Many details remain to be added.

The below video is shot on a Canon HV20 with a wide angle lens adapter. I didn’t to any lighting of the scene, its just a 75 watt household bulb directly above the scene. Threw a blue foamcore board behind the set for a quick “sky”. Anyhow, its fun to get the pace of the 12 frames per second (fps) recording and play with the depth of field a bit (camera was set at f1.8). Using iStopMotion on my MacBook Pro as usual.

The first set is 80% built for the stop-motion music video I’m doing for the band Cars & Trucks. This residential set will feature about a dozen cardstock houses, very simplistic and childlike in design. The majority of action will be accomplished by camera moves and the movement of Matchbox style toy vehicles.

I will post photos of the set under construction soon. Right now I’m debating on how to dress the backgrounds of the set. Blue sheet on the wall? Shoot on green screen stage?