Better Late than Never? Misunderstood Books

MISUNDERSTOOD BOOKS   Link to the video

I want to apologize for the lateness of this video post. Misunderstood Books was a humbling experience. For a video that is under 2 minutes, it took a lot of planning. Creating the personalities of the books, finding different people to do the voices, then realizing I couldn't figure out how to sync the voices correctly (which required me to re-record them myself). I can't remember where I first got the idea to try to tell a story using stop motion, and while I think the concept has some great potential, it is a project that I felt I bit off a little more than I could chew. 

My original script gave the books much more in-depth personality and lasted maybe over 7 minutes long with just talking. It was a bit meatier and maybe melodramatic but I felt that the script ran a bit too long. Not only that but the required amount of space the app takes up while creating the videos was enormous which led to more complications. So I had to make lots of cuts all around to get something that actually turned to be more of a comedy than a dramatic story which I originally intended. 

Also it used about 400 pictures just to create the 2 minute video, and to save time and space I reused a couple of shots which almost gave an intentional B movie feel. 

I definitely tried to do something much different than my first digital story in terms of telling a completely weird story that somewhat people can relate to. Originally it was a long drawn out conversation about the books being replaced by technology but in the end, the iPad convinced most of the books that it was in fact the iPad who is more obsolete (given the fact that it will be replaced and die out one day where as books can last a lot longer, don't require power to run, and give a certain tactile feel that an iPad doesn't offer.

Once again sorry for the lateness.

The app is called Stop Motion and you can get a free version or a paid version from the app store. It works pretty well but it can be a little hard to figure out some of the tricks to get the effects you want. Could use a better tutorial.