STOP MOTION: The process used in the making of this film is known as stop motion. This process works by taking a photo, moving something slightly, then taking another photo, moving it again, taking another photo, and so on. This takes a very long time and requires a lot of patience. You must also try and keep the camera as steady as possible otherwise the scene looks unsmooth. Generally, the thing that is moving is a LEGO minifigure but LEGO sets can also be part of a shot too. In total, I took 2,827 photos, which took quite a while.
EDITING: Once I transferred the photos onto my laptop, I had to edit them into a film using windows movie maker. For 50% of the time, you see each photo for 0.08 seconds, meaning that there are 12.5 frames every second, which looks very good. There are a few instances where it gets to 25fps (frames per sec)) and also some where it goes to only 3fps or even 1 if nothing is happening. Movie Maker only allowed me to put on one audio track at a time, so I kept having to publish what I had done in order to add music and sound effects on top of the voices.
SPECIAL EFFECTS: Probably the best thing about this film is the special effects. I use a special program called Effects Lab Pro, where you can incorporate nearly any effect from weather to lasers and lightsabers to optics and fire. In total, there are about 600 effects, which took a long time as I had to edit each frame of each effect separately.
FINALLY: Once all the special effects, stop motion, editing and audio came together, I just had to publish it one last time and then it was completely finished. In total, it took between 50-70 hours, there were at least 500 special effects (322 in final scene) and I took 2,827 pictures.
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