The day of filming was torture for me. I woke up at about 9 am and started to film. It started really annoying me and I couldn't stand him up any more and he tried to to fall down alot and it was really starting to annoy me. I did many goes and all of them were fails. But I kept trying to film anyways because I had no choice because I had chose to film on the last couple of free days of the holidays. I just kept filming and re filming and re filming and re filming. I also had to take care of filming matters. I tried heaps of different angles. It was really annoying sitting on the floor for ages and not moving and also trying to keep my hands out of the shots. When my mum came home from shopping, I asked her if she knew how to keep my man up and she said to stick toothpicks into the body that will make it stand straight. Oh I forgot to mention that the body was kind of morphing and getting all wrecked. After I had put the toothpicks into my man, I tried to film again and it actually worked and stood up and walked! I was soooo amazed! I did a few more takes and then I decided that I should make a whole new man because not only was this one looking really tattered and wrecked, it was also getting held down, and you couldn't even see the legs and you couldn't tell the difference between the kankles and the pants. The shoes were also getting really big and the actual man was just really annoying me. As Mr P said before, it is easier to film with smaller things, so I remade my man smaller and better. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't have enough clay to make another one because I couldn't use the same clay from the other man. (I forgot to tell yo that the other man was getting all fluffy from falling down all the time and was getting black and didn't look nice.) I finally made my man, all clay because I figured out that using paper for the head didn't really make a difference. So I put took picks through the head and the body, and then through the body and both legs. I made the shoes again, but smaller so that when they got squished they wouldn't be really big. When I re filmed AGAIN, it went really well and I was happy when it was all finished. I am sorry to say, but the happiest memory of that day was when my fish ate my man and i had the chance to muck up my man and destroy it for good. When I filmed I didn't know how to save it and then work back to it because I knew that I had to make changes and edit it. I saved it so many times in heaps of different ways and I tried to call friends but I didn't know if it would work and if they were right. I finally decided that one of the ways that I saved the file would be right. Also, just in case it didn't work, I saved all the pictures as pictures so that I could put them all into stop motion if I needed to. That made be secure that one of the ways would work. After that, I started to edit it alittle bit and I took out some of the stuff that I didn't think I needed. I used the camera to go high and then back low again and it didn't really turn out so I thought that I would take it out, I took it out and my film looked alot better. The film used to be 1 minute and 30 seconds, but after i edited it, it was only approximately 30 seconds. After I think that I thought that I had done enough work on the holidays, I thought that I could finish. I closed the laptop and packed it away to bring it back to school.
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