Crowdfunding & Stop Motion

Edit: like tomorrows post, this post ended up being pushed from the week it was written for, and thus all dates mentioned are actually more like two weeks in the past. Sorry about that. 

Last monday we got together at 10 to practice our presentation on Wednesday, but we didn't have class after that until 3, so Laura, Maya, Lindsey, Becca, and myself headed down to The Treehouse for lunch - I seriously love that place. After that, I went to Starbucks and read for a couple of hours. I've been reading a lot this last couple of weeks - I took a bit of a break after finishing the first three books in Cassandra Claire's Mortal Instruments series, before reading the fourth one (which I did not really like, while I really liked the first three). Then I read Veronica Roth's Divergent, which was amazing (another occasion of me staying up to 3am to finish a book because I couldn't stop reading), read John Green and David Leviathan's Will Grayson Will Grayson, and am currently reading Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. There are two more books in Roth's series, but, as amazing as they are, I decided I needed a break from YA sci-fi and fantasy, and when Will Grayson Will Grayson wasn't enough of a departure from that, I decided to go for an actual adult book.

In other news, last week I *finally* managed to finish editing the video for Ah Dinnae Ken's crowdfunding efforts. There were a couple of delays in getting it done - while Laura and Lindsey and I got together a couple of Tuesdays ago and managed to take all the photos and write the script for the video, there were a couple of delays in getting the voiceover recorded and finding music, but it finally came together last Wednesday! If you haven't seen it yet, our crowdfunding is now live, and if you'd like to go and have a look and support our efforts if you are interested, you can find it here.

These are some "stills" from the video. While we were going to simply film myself drawing and then speed it up, we couldn't figure out how (or if) you can film on my DSLR, and so decided to simply photograph myself drawing, and then edit them together in a stop motion video (it was quite the set up, with the camera in a tripod on the table, facing downwards, with me awkwardly drawing between the legs of the tripod while Laura clicked the shutter).

Some of the pictures ended up being cut to make the video more brief and succinct, and also to help it line up with the script, so while the little guy above is still in the video, the speech bubble got cut - a good aspect of doing stop motion is that it makes it very easy to do things like cut certain scenes or aspects.