Stop Motion with Sound

 

I actually didn't use GarageBand for this assignment - I used Ableton Live instead. I'm currently taking Sound in Media and have been using Ableton since the beginning of the semester, so I thought I would just keep up with it since it's been a pretty hard software to learn. I used five different midi tracks to create the piece so there are five instruments - most of them are piano or plucked tracks but there's also a sitar track in there as well. I wanted to go for a more upbeat sound but ended up creating more of a wandering, ambient soundtrack instead (I seem to have an affinity for making those). I usually go by what I hear when previewing a track; if I like the way it sounds, there's a 99% chance I'm going to use it.

Stop Motion

 

Here's my stop motion video! I couldn't think of anything super unique to do, so I just grabbed two of my little stuffed horses and my candle and made it look like they were jumping on top of it. I took the stills with my digital camera since I figured it'd look more satisfying, but obviously some of the picture quality was lost from resizing the images. The video might looked looped, but it's not; it's just 60 separate stills of the horses following each other over the candle!

Age Progression

 

It was hard getting the age progression to be exact since I didn't have two photos from exactly the same angle, so I tried to line them up as best I could. My face shape has obviously changed from when I was little too, so that didn't help. I'm not used to anyone outside of close family and friends seeing my baby photos so enjoy the preview😬