Audio.

Before i could animate the film, I decided to record the audio, so that I could animate the film to the narration and the dialogue in time. Ive found from some previous experinces that it is easier to animate to a narration than to try and narrate an animation. I also looked in this book about animation and found out thats how they do most animations, well the rugrats at least, that being the example used. So this is how im doing my film, audio then animate.

I havnt mentioned the exact plot of the film yet, or even the main chrachters names come to think of it. Well its about these two people in a house, one of whom is in the bath, the other, wishing to use the bathroom. I dont feel I can give the end way just yet, chances are if your reading this you either have or will see the film anyway. Here are some early sketches of one of them:


I wrote the story fairly early on in the project, in three chapter on my type writter pretty sharpish. Starting with chapter one, then chapter three and then filling in the gap with chapter two. I wrote it quite alot like a book, except i was writting it for myself more than a book. Writting it as I imagined it so as i would not forget it, trying to note down what was there and where people where looking and things like that, and thinking about it with the finished product of a film in mind. But also trying to write it like a story, with a clear narrative and clear descriptions.

Where to record the Audio was fairly obvious to me. For the last few months or so i've been playing and recording loud rock and roll music at this house in manningtree. My friend Jack and Ben live there. Me and Ben and severall other have recorded quite alot of songs on this four track tape deck, which gives a pretty good recording. So I re-wrote my three chapter story into a script for three people and headed to manningtree. myself, Ben and my friend Josh recorded the dialogue and narration in one take, acting out a strange sort of routine so as to get the voices the right distance from the micraphone, sometimes shouted from outside a closed door, other times in the echoy bathroom. Over this we added some sound effect such as water running downa plug hole and a loud banging noise. Listen out for them when you watch the film.

A handy feature of stopmotion pro is the audio sync tool, which mean that the audio is link to the animation the whole time you are animating.