Project 3 Exhibition piece

My final exhibition piece is now complete.
You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Fd5j7rVQ4
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My Creation Process
When I began to create my exhibition piece I discovered a problem. How was I going to get lots of people talking, in close up, and get it looking good mixed with the sounds I had in mind?
I overcame this obstacle by keeping the same idea of sound but changing the way I portrayed it. After many thoughts and possible ideas I settled on creating rain/water droplets that fell down with a splashing sound.

The left frame
In the left frame I had a shape that vaguely represented a raindrop falling but after testing the video on some audience members I realised it was not that easy to understand the metaphor.
This is what it looked like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-29ovSEPi0
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Rethink
So I rethought that idea of the rain drop and came up with a rain cloud instead, with and without water droplets underneath it. I thought this version was much easier to understand then the previous and so i kept it through.

The right frame creation
The right frame was probably the hardest part of the video to create. You may have already spotted this but for those who haven't, it was created through the stop-motion animation technique. To animate this, I pulled together some bits and pieces from around the house and created a scaffold type rig. On which I placed a long rod which had some blue thread wrapped around it. I then molded some blue plasticine around the end of the blue thread and once that was done, I framed the shot (on my camera). To start animating I unwound the thread by about 2 or 3 millimetres each frame and then took photos after each movement. Once the plasticine was on the ground I removed the blue thread and squished the clay down, taking photos after each little squidge. And finally, to make it look like the water was disappearing or evaporating I pinched little slivers off and took photos until there was no clay left. I repeated this for the exhibition piece and then added the left-hand frame symbol (of the rain-drop(then changed to the cloud)) which I had created on the computer.