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Stop-Motion Video: Shoot and Edit Magical People Stop Motion Videos

teacher avatar Amelie Satzger, Photo Artist / Art Director

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Let's Go!

      1:48

    • 2.

      Welcome to the Class

      1:41

    • 3.

      About Stop-Motion

      2:07

    • 4.

      Possiblities in Stop-Motion

      1:22

    • 5.

      Brainstorming Ideas

      2:52

    • 6.

      Manifesting an Idea

      2:36

    • 7.

      Preparation

      3:35

    • 8.

      Shooting

      3:31

    • 9.

      Editing: Preparing Files

      4:47

    • 10.

      Editing: In Premiere

      8:35

    • 11.

      Editing: In iMovie

      2:41

    • 12.

      Tips & Tricks

      3:26

    • 13.

      What we've learned

      1:03

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Want to create magical people Stop-Motion Videos? Learn how to shoot compelling Stop-Motion videos with ease that make people stun!

Do you wanna make your photos alive and still keep the magic? Or do you wanna spice up your Instagram Feed with videos? Then this class is for you!

In this 40min class you will join me to learn how to create awesome People Stop Motion videos, that will definitely catch your viewers eyes! Not only will we discuss all the possibilities you have in Stop Motion but also the whole shooting procedure and editing steps that help you to create with more ease.

You will follow me behind the scenes and I’ll show you step by step how I shoot a brand new Stop Motion Video. You’ll learn how to edit your video in Adobe Premiere OR iMovie and I’ll show you my learnings of how to communicate your video ideas better with your team. 

In thought-through lessons with many examples you will learn:

  • All the Possibilities you have in Stop Motion
  • How to get jaw dropping video ideas by thinking in actions
  • How to communicate your video concepts with your team
  • How to prepare your Video Shooting
  • What equipment is necessary for Stop-Motion
  • Tips how to shoot your Stop-Motion Video
  • Step by step guide how to edit a Stop Motion Video (with Premiere & iMovie)
  • Tips & Tricks how to achieve special effects with Stop Motion

Whether you’re a beginner, enthusiast or professional, who wants to learn more about Stop Motion Videos, this class is a great place to start! You don’t need any extra equipment beside a Tripod and your camera/phone and the lessons are designed for any skill level. So let’s get started! Can’t wait to see what you create!

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Amelie Satzger

Photo Artist / Art Director

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Hi, my name is Amelie.
I am a photo artist and art director from originally from Munich, but traveling around as a digital nomad for the last 3 years.

My pictures are known for their colorful, surrealistic touch. Inspired by books, lyrics and words in total, I am able to abstract and visualize them into new artworks.

My work was already shown at numerous exhibitions and art fairs such as the "Fotofever" in Paris, the ,,United Photo Industries Gallery" in New York and the ,,Galerie Courcelles Art Contemporain" in Paris. Besides that I give workshops and talks at conferences and events and love to share my passion and knowledge with you guys.

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1. Let's Go!: You think writing magical videos with special effects are solely reserved for Hollywood firms, then you obviously haven't tried stop-motion yet. The good news is you're perfectly right in this class as I'll show you how to shoot and add stop-motion videos, and how to make your video stand out with simple but super effective tricks. Hey everyone, my name is Emily Laska. I'm a digital artist and I create magical stop-motion videos, which were already displayed in ads for big brands such as Adobe. I already had a passion for stop-motion very early in my life, when I got into film class, I chose to create a three minute long stop-motion video instead of normal film, and what can I say? It was probably one of my favorite of all time. In this class, I will show you how you can brainstorm stop-motion ideas and why I set myself a framework for that. I will walk you through process of finalizing and planning an idea, and I will show you how I create a storyboard. We will go through the equipment I use for shooting my stop-motion videos, and I share with you my experience of what I think is important to be aware of before shooting one. Of course, you will also get a very intimate insight of how I shot this stop-motion video, and we will edit this video step-by-step afterwards together. Lastly, I will share a few some simple tricks I learnt over the last couple of years of how to achieve special effects with stop-motion. I hope with this class I can pass on my passion for stop-motion to you and take any insecurities you might have in creating stop-motion videos. No matter if you're a beginner or already a bit experienced, but want to learn more about stop-motion video, this class has something new for everyone, so hope to see you inside. 2. Welcome to the Class: [MUSIC] Hi everyone, welcome to my stop-motion class. Today we are going to learn how to plan, shoot and edit awesome people stop-motion videos. In the end of this class, you will know exactly how to create a magical stop-motion video and I will share with you tricks of how to create real effects in stop-motion. What equipment do you need? Firstly, of course you need a camera or your phone. I will use my 5D Mark III, but it doesn't really matter as long as your device can take photos. Secondly, it would be really handy if you have tripod as for stop-motion video, you have to have a really stable camera. It doesn't have to be an expensive one. For example, the tripod I use for over five years only costed like 25 euros at Amazon. Also, if you want to be in the stop-motion video yourself like me, you would probably need a remote control. There are remote controls for DSLR cameras and phones so don't worry, I'll show you a different options later in this class. After we shot the stop-motion video, I will show you how to edit your video afterwards in Premier Pro so having Adobe Premiere subscription would be beneficial. But you can try Premier for free for seven days and I will show you another free option of how to create a stop-motion video, so don't worry. Lastly, of course, you should have fun to create and you have to have your own imagination. I'm super excited to see what you come up with in this class so please make sure to share your results in the project section of this class. Without anything further to say, I would say let's start. 3. About Stop-Motion: [MUSIC] First of all, let's talk about what stop motion actually is. Stop motion videos are simply just photos that are played quickly after another, so they give the illusion of a movement. But as you probably know, videos are also just a lot of images played really fast after each other, so what is the difference? The difference between a stop motion video and a regular video is that for the stop motion video, you actually actively take a lot of different images after each other. If you, for example, want to animate yourself sliding over the ground, you take a photo and take a small step, take another photo, take a small step, take another photo, etc. The awesome thing about some motion is that this way you can be a lot more creative and fake movements that normally would not be possible, like making objects move or slide over the ground. There are mainly three different types of stop motion videos. The first one are illustrative stop motion videos, which you can see a lot in cartoon series such as The Simpsons, which I personally really love. Basically, cartoons are a lot of different painted illustrations which are played after one another. The second type is what I call option stop motion animation, which as the name already says, includes any object that is animated as stop motion video. This is often used in ads or any social media campaigns as it can especially help to sell products as it humanizes the products really well. The third type are people stop motion videos, which I also sometimes see in ads or any social media campaigns, but not as often, and it's basically also motion videos which include people such as my stop motion videos, which you already saw. Personally, I really love to have people in my videos as well as in my picture, so today I'll show you how you can really easily create an outstanding stop motion video of yourself or of a friend of yours. 4. Possiblities in Stop-Motion: [MUSIC] Before we start creating, I quickly want to spark your imagination of what is actually possible in Submotion. The thing I love most about Submotion is that you can be so much more creative than in regular filming. It is super easy to achieve magical effects in Submotion. For example, in some older movies such as all the Terminator movies, they actually use Submotion to achieve special effects just as a little side info. For example, making people slide over the ground, letting flowers grow out of your hands or make objects move top or fly are simple tricks that anybody can create. For example, in one of my Submotion videos, I wanted to have a sheet of paper to come out of a telephone. What I actually did is I shot the whole scene backwards. First, I put a piece of paper on a table and I just moved it backwards and I pushed it into the phone until it disappeared fully into the phone. In the post-production, I would actually play it the other way round, so the piece of paper would come out of the telephone, lie itself on a desk, and flatten itself. But I will explain this trick and a couple of other ones I learned over the last couple of years much more in detail to you in a separate lecture in this class later on. 5. Brainstorming Ideas: [MUSIC] Now that you know a bit more about what is actually possible in stop-motion, let's find some awesome fun idea that you're keen to create. To find ideas, I have a bunch of different techniques, but especially for coming up with video ideas, it really helps me to set myself a framework that I follow or else I experience I'm just heading everywhere and nowhere. The framework I set myself mostly consists of three different adjectives that should be fitting to the video ideas I come up with. For example, for my stop-motion video for this class, I set myself the framework that the video should be easy. You guys can try and recreate it if you'd like to. It should be fun. Obviously, you can see how much fun you can have with creating stop-motion videos. It should be surreal. It spark some excitement and it's not too simple. In other projects, for example, like the project I did with Adobe Premiere, the framework was already set. For this project, my three restrictions were that I had to demonstrate how to change colors in Premiere, it should be a magical video, and it also should fit my usual photo style. Of course, for this class, you're absolutely free to set the framework itself. You can just think about what makes the most sense to you. Do you want to have it more minimalistic or surreal, or should it be mystical, dark or bright and happy? So just set a couple of requirements. As soon as you have set your framework, you can just simply play the 'what if' game. That's at least how I try to Spock my ideas. Basically what I do is I just look around me and find any item I like and I asked myself, what if my glass of water just runs away from me while I try to catch it? What if my pillow truck comes and snuckles with me? What if my piano plays by itself? Videos and contrast images show a whole process, so make sure that you actually think in action instead of static images. If you play the 'what if' game, already a lot of fun ideas come your way, but you can also get a bit more specific and pick an item you'd like to have in your images and play the "what if" game with them. For example, I like to have a stop-motion video with items like books, like a clock maybe, or many clocks, a hat, or a suitcase. Now let's just take your time and think about objects you'd like to create a stop-motion video with and play the "what if" game to brainstorm as many good ideas as possible fitting to your framework. In the next lecture, I explain my idea to you and I'll show you how you can finalize and plan your idea. 6. Manifesting an Idea: [MUSIC] If you found an idea that really excites you, let's now finalize the idea. To do so, I firstly would explain the idea in 3-5 sentences. This way you make sure that you as well as anybody you might collaborate with understood what exactly is planned. My idea, I would explain in the following four sentences. In my stop motion video, I will have a suitcase as a main character. The suitcase will slide, all by itself, into the video, lay itself down and jump open. As soon as the suitcase is open a girl will jump out of that close the suitcase and carry it away. The style of the video should be minimalistic and held in a pink/ turquoise color scheme. Now you can try to put your idea into 3-5 sentences. So just pause the video and write your idea down. Great, so you now probably already have an idea of how my stop motion video will look like, but there's one more thing I'd really like to do before I start shooting a stop motion video and this is drawing a storyboard. Especially for bigger film project such as my three minutes stop motion video I did in Uni, it is necessary to draw a storyboard. I really like to draw storyboards as it really helps me to get an overview of when what is happening in the video, and it often shows me possible problems that can occur while I'm shooting. Also, especially if you're working with other people, the storyboard is really great to communicate and make sure you're both on the same track. So what exactly is a storyboard and how can you create one? A storyboard is basically a little comic of every important action in your video. It contains a lot of little images that shows to chronology of the video. I usually paint it with my iPad and a drawing app. And as a have Adobe Creative Cloud, I use Fresco but you can use whatever app you prefer to draw or you just simply draw it on a piece of paper. [MUSIC] Now that we know exactly how our stop motion video should look like, let's plan the shooting. 7. Preparation: Before we shoot this stop-motion video, we have to make sure that we have everything we need. First obvious thing you need is a camera, and as I already mentioned before, you can also just use your phone. It really doesn't matter, it just needs to take photos. But just make sure that you have enough battery and an empty SD card or enough storage on your phone to avoid any unpleasant surprises. The second thing you need is a tripod and you can get a really cheap one like this one is my iPhone tripod I got it from Amazon and was the cheapest one. Currently, I use my Alta and Pro tripod for my DSLR camera for five years. I used a 25 years tripod for my DSLR camera as well, and it worked super well. Lastly, if you want to shoot a stop-motion video of yourself or you don't have any helping hand, a remote control is really handy. Remote controls exists for phones as well as for cameras, and I use this one for my phone and this one for my camera, and I have only good things to say about both of the remote controls. Then, of course, we need to check that we have all of the props we need for the video. I decided to go with a rather old-fashioned outfit I found. I went to a store a couple of weeks ago and I tried it on and I really loved it with the hat, so I will wear this outfit in my video. With the suitcase, I already have a suitcase, which I actually used to storage old clothes of mine on my closet, but I now use it for the shooting anything it will fit really well. It's actually exactly what I thought of when I was planning the video. Lastly, I will take some fishing wire with me as it will help me a lot to animate the suitcase, especially when it falls down and opens itself, but you will see it in a second. Another thing to think about before you run out and shoot your stop-motion video is how long you'd like to have your video and how rough or smooth it should look like. I would recommend 12 frames per second, which is like a normal amount for stop-motion videos. But if you'd like to have it a little bit more rough, you can go down to six frames per second. If you want to have it smoother, you can go up to 24 frames per second. If you know how many frames per second you want, you can think about how long a certain movement should take, and you can estimate how many images you should take from point A to point B. For me for example, I would like to have a normal stop-motion video with 12 frames per second, and I want to have around a 10-second video. So, I can estimate that I have to take around 120 images, for the whole stop-motion video. Lastly, of course, you need to find the right location for your stop-motion video. I needed to find a pink wall, and what I basically did is I googled pink wall in Munich and I found a really cool one, which looks perfect for my idea, and was actually not too far. I actually already found a couple of really cool locations by just simply searching for them on Google. But if you can't find anything fitting to your idea, what I usually do then is to assume location scouting. I basically just walk around the city and just take photos with my iPhone of any location which might fit to the idea I have. 8. Shooting : [MUSIC] Now it's finally time now we're going to shoot our stop motion video. When I arrived at a location the first thing I did was set up my tripod and camera and I took some test photos of different perspectives to see what perspective I like best. As soon as I was happy with the angle, I took some test photos to make sure that I was still in a frame and a suitcase as well, and even in situations as when I step out of the suitcase it would still be in frame. Then I set the focus of the camera on me and I put the focus to manual so it's the same focus pointer in the whole stop motion video. This is really important and I started shooting the stop motion video. This stop motion video can be separated in two different parts. The one without a person and a one with a person inside. The first part without me was rather easy to shoot. I just simply moved a suitcase a tiny little bit, took a photo, moved it a tiny little bit, took a photo, etc. When I came to making the suitcase fall and open on its own, it was a bit harder as I need different photos in different positions while it was falling down or opening. What I did is I used a fishing wire to fake the movement of the suitcase without me having to be inside the video. Before I was opening the suitcase, I also had to make sure that the outfit inside was lying perfectly so it would fit to my jump and my body later on in this video. Then I changed into the outfit and I laid myself into the suitcase and tried to fit the last position of the outfit as good as possible. To fake the jump, I would recommend to you that you just jump a couple of times and take photos while you're jumping, and after it, once you can see what images make a good sequence. For example, one time you are maybe a bit higher in the air, and another time you are already a bit further to the ground, or you just like landing on the ground. If you have a couple of different photos, you can just put them in the right position afterwards so you don't have to worry about that while you're shooting. After the jump, I would then again move really slowly and stop, take a photo, move, stop take a photo, etc. I also wanted the suitcase to close itself but it was difficult as I was already in the frame so I tried to fake it with the fishing wire. I had a fishing wire in my right hand but it was a little bit complicated. [MUSIC]Then you can see I just took the suitcase and moved out of the frame. [MUSIC]. If you finish shooting your stop motion video and you're unsure if the stop motion video was successful, you can just play the images reverse often in your camera so you already have a really good impression of how the movement will look like. So now that we've shot the stop motion video, let's see how we can add it in Premiere Pro. 9. Editing: Preparing Files: First step I usually do to create my stop motion videos is to have a look at all of the images I shot and create a loop for them. I usually like to do it in bridge as I can also edit all of the images in Camera Raw as I shot my images in raw but you can also do it in Lightroom or whatever program you prefer. I usually shoot the stop motion video twice because I just want to make sure that one of them at least looks good and I also shot this stop motion video twice, and I already know that I like the second one better. So I'm just having a look when the second stop motion video starts, and it's around here so you can already see a little bit how it will look like. It already looks good, but you can see that there's one wrong image in there and we will do that in a second. It actually already looks really, really well. What I would do now is I would go on one of the images where I'm in the image as well, do a double-click and now you can see it opens in Photoshop but in Camera Raw section. Then I would make my adjustments. I'm just quickly doing my adjustments. [MUSIC] If I finish my adjustments, I just say "finished" and then I go back in bridge. Now you can see that the one image I edited, it looks a little bit different than the other ones. What I do then is I copy these settings I just did at the one image. I say "old command C" and then I select all of the images from the beginning of my sequence. So here it starts till where we end. And I say "Alt Command V" and it just copies the whole settings on all of the images and all of the images have the same look. The second thing I would do is I would go through all of the images and just look for any image which doesn't fit into the sequence. So I'm just looking through and we already know that there are a couple of images where I'm sitting there, where actually only the suitcase should be in the image. So I'm just looking here. Here we go. I would just delete these images, so I'll say, "Move to the trash." Fine and then I would see if everything looks good this way and it does. [MUSIC] Here is one image which is wrong as well because the suitcase just quickly closed and I redid the scene. So I'm deleting this image as well [MUSIC] When you're sure that the sequence looks perfectly fine, you can just select all of the images you want to have in your videos. I'm just selecting all of the images and then I go on "Tools" on "Photoshop", on "Image processor" and I usually have it like this so I have like 2,000-1,333 and then I choose a folder. I'm just choosing a folder and then I say "Start". In the fourth step of editing the stop motion video, I would rename all of the image files of the exported images. It's important to know that in Premiere you need a continuous numbering to actually be able to import the image sequence into Premiere. So to get a continuous numbering, I would just mark all of the exported images. I would go on "Tools" on "Renaming images" and then you can choose whatever you want to. I'm renaming them "Stop motion" and I know that there are around 120 images, so I would say 001 and they have three letters, then I say, "Okay". Then you can see all of the images have a continuous numbering. 10. Editing: In Premiere: [MUSIC] Now we can finally import the images into Premiere. We open Premiere, we create a new project. We can call it whatever we want to. Stop motion video. I'm going to save it on my hard drive. I'm going to select it and say open. To create a stop motion video in Premiere is super simple. You only have to go on Import Media, say "Import", and then go on your stop motion. I'm going on my export, it's stop motion, photos. I go on the first image, so the image with 001 at the end, and then I choose Image Sequence. Now it actually finds all of the images which follows this one image with a continuous numbering and it is imported. Now you can see if we have a look at this image sequence, it looks cool, it works, but it's super fast. Now it's actually played in 25 frames per second, which is far too quick for us. How we can change this is we're going on this image sequence, we just import it, say Modify, say Interpret Footage. Then we can actually choose our own frames per second. FPS is frames per second. I just say 12 SI, want to have 12 frames per second. I say "Okay", and you can already see the sequence is much longer, so it's now 10 seconds long. I import it in here. I say change image sequence settings and now you can see it's the speed we actually want it to be. [MUSIC] It actually already looks pretty good, but I would still do some little adjustments here in Premiere. There are a couple of tools which I want to show you which I really love personally. My favorite tool is the Lumetri Color. If we go on the Lumetri Color, we have a lot of different options similar to Camera Raw. We can adjust here the contrast, the highlights etc. We can actually enhance our video a little bit more in here, but especially one tool I really love is HSL secondary. You can actually change colors in here in Premiere, which is really awesome. We already adjusted the colors a little bit, but I would maybe try a little bit in this or that direction. Basically, you can just go on the eye dropper tool, select the color you want to have selected. Here you can see how much of the color is selected, so you want to make sure that all of the pink is selected. Now we have selected all the pink areas. Then you can't just change to pink tone, which is really awesome and I personally really love it. You can also make it more saturated or less saturated. You can make it more pink or less pink. I'm just adjusting my video a little bit. Here now I want to change the pink tones a tiny little bit and the turkeys tones a little bit and see what I personally love the best. If I want to make the pink tones a little darker, I can also go on the three little dots in here, then I can move the tones a little bit down here and you can see it gets darker. Let's see how that looks like. [MUSIC] I actually love the darker pink tone a lot. Now, let's create another Lumetri color effect. You just have to go on here and say add Lumetri color effect. Then I just go on the eyedropper tool, I select the blue tones. I make sure that all of the blue tones are selected. Let's move it over here. I think like that is good. Now, I can actually change the blue tones. I can actually make it green or whatever color I prefer. I think I just want to make it a little bit more bluish. I also go on these three little dots in here and just make the blue tones a lot darker because I think it looks nicer if it's like these dark red tones and dark blue tones here. You can see it already looks nice, maybe not that extremely dark. [MUSIC] You can try it yourself. You can just play around a little bit and see what you like best. What you also can try is because you can see the edges here are pretty hard, and so what I would do is I would go up with the blur a little bit so it doesn't look as hard anymore. Maybe around too. [MUSIC] Nice. There's one more adjustment I would like to do as I actually like to have the floor or the ground here a little bit brighter so it looks less dark and less wet. It was raining while I was shooting, so it actually is really dark. What I would do is I would create another Lumetri color effect, and I would go into basic corrections. I would make the exposure a little higher, the contrast a little lower, the highlights a little higher and the shadows a little higher. You can see the ground looks actually much brighter now, but everything else starts to swell, so it gets too bright, especially if me as a person comes in. What I would actually do is I would go on the Lumetri color here on the right-hand side, and I will create a mask so I would actually only make the ground a little brighter. I would just select this, and I would just make a mask over the ground like this. Maybe it looks better if the suitcase is not selected as well. I will just deselect the suitcase and make the edges really soft so it doesn't look weird. You can see now, when I take the suitcase and when the suitcase comes in, it actually doesn't fit with the mask. I can now actually make a mask path so I can actually change the path while the video is changing. I would just simply go on Mask Path. Then I would say, this path is perfect when the suitcase comes in, so as soon as it's down here, I will just put it in here. Everything before that should be a different path. I will just go on Mask and I will change it. I will just move it down here. You can see there's another dot which just came up as soon as I changed the path. [MUSIC] Then I would just follow the suitcase with the path while it comes in. Perfect. Now that I'm happy with my video, I'm just going to go on File, Export Media, and I'm finished with my stop motion video. [MUSIC] 11. Editing: In iMovie: [MUSIC] For anybody who doesn't have Adobe Premiere, here's a quick tutorial of how you can create a stop-motion video with a free software such as iMovie here on my iMac. I'm basically just opening iMovie and I say "New Project film". First thing you need to do is to import all the images. I'm just importing all of the 120 images off my stop-motion video. Then the most important part of creating a stop-motion video in iMovie is going on settings and then changing the duration of one photo, and I'm changing the frame rate to 0.1 so it has 10 images per second. Then I'm just closing it and I'm selecting all of the images and putting them in my sequence. You can see it already looks pretty good. The only thing I really don't like about iMovie is that you can't choose the size of your file. You can actually just select it like this. You have like borders on the side, or what you can also do is just select all images like go on images and say ''Command A'' to select every image in the sequence and then go on a cap sign. Then you can say cut to full frame size so it's like the normal video size which is 16:9. You can just adjust it a little bit and say 'Okay." Then you can see it cuts into the full frame body, cuts off the head a little bit, so I wouldn't quite recommended it for this video, maybe for your video it's perfect. The other thing I wanted to show you is you can actually adjust colors a tiny little bit in iMovie, not as good as in Premier obviously, but let's see. You only have to go on the filter icon up here. Every image is selected, which is important, go in the photo icon and then you can say,'' Add filter.'' You can just choose any photo you like. I think just Western filter is nice for this clip. Then we can just simply export it by going on this little icon and say "Export Film" and then you can save it anywhere you want to. This is how the stop-motion video looks like after editing it with iMovie. [MUSIC] 12. Tips & Tricks: As a little bonus, at the end of this class, I want to give you some tips and tricks you can use to make your stop-motion video even more magical. Some of the tricks you've already seen in this class, but some you can just simply try out yourself at home. The first trick is, as you already saw in this class, to use a fishing wire to fake movements of objects like making the suitcase open and close, or making objects lift. For example, in this video as well, we used a fishing wire to make the telephone ring. But you can also make papers or leaves fly in use of motion videos, as you can see in this video. Just consider it the next time you are not sure about how to fake movements. The next tip is to shoot the scene backwards. This can give the impression of matching, especially when objects move themselves. For example, this scene we shot backwards so the actress actually dipped a piece of paper into the cup of tea while we took a bunch of photos and then we played it backwards so it actually looks like she's pulling the paper out of the tea and it is drying. Also here in the telephone scene you can see that the paper comes out of the phone, flattens itself. You can get actually really, really cool effects with this trick. Also, sometimes it's necessary to let your object make really, really small movements to make it just look more realistic. Often you also need to tilt your object a tiny little bit, which is often quite difficult. For that I would recommend that you use dough or something similar like, for example, parafix to make the object just tilt a bit and just fix them and make them stable. Sometimes I even use normal tape, which also works well, especially if you just turn it around and just put the sticky side on the outside, so it just fix this object just a tiny little bit. Lastly, if you want to take the whole game one step further, you can work with green screens. You've probably already heard of green screens, but maybe you're not familiar with how you can take advantage of them. Basically the green screen helps you if you want to insert or cut anything out of your video. All you need for that is any flat piece of paper or any flat fabric which is green. For example, I just have green wrapping paper. I also have a professional green screen, but for small objects, this really works as well. But what you'd probably ask yourself now is how does it work? How can I create cool things with green screens? For example, if I want to let a flower grow out of my hands, what I would do is I would take a couple of photos of that flower in front of a green screen and I will just cut a tiny little bit off the flower each time I take a new photo until the flower is totally cut and gone and then I would go into Premier, import all the images in Premier as a sequence as we've done it before. I go on effects, use the old tracky effect, go on the eye dropper tool and then select the green of the background. You can see the green is now totally deleted, and the only thing you see is a flower. Lastly, I would just simply play the video backwards and [NOISE] the flower is growing anywhere you want it to be. 13. What we've learned: Congrats, you made it. In this class, we learned all about stop-motion videos. We discussed what's the difference between stop-motion videos and regular videos, and you learned different tricks of how you can use stop-motion videos to achieve special effects. We brainstormed a bunch of fun ideas in which lines to one in a storyboard. We planned and executed a shooting and made sure it was a full success. Finally, we put a stop-motion video together in Premier and made it look as stunning as we'd imagine it. I hope this class inspired you and you start creating more magical stop-motion videos in the future. I can't wait to see what you've created within this class. Please make sure to share it within the project section of this class. I hope you enjoyed this class if you did make sure to leave a review. If you are interested in more about my iPhone photography, make sure to check out my other class about shooting and editing on your iPhone. I had so much fun creating this class. I hope to see you in some other class as soon. Bye.