initial stages of filming

We decided to begin by shooting the stop motion barbie characters in their sequence of drinking getting into the car and crashing, it was hard it first to get into it, and know esactly how to make the characters look as though they were moving realistically and effectivly, but one we shot the first few short scenes, it became alot more aparent. We thought that it would take too many tiny movement and then shooting to make it look as effective as we wanted, but when veiwing our footage back, the amount we did get worked very well in creating a life like barbie and ken scene, the slight jumps which you get from stop motion worked effectivly in the way that it creates humour, something we wanted to make happen in order for the real life footage to have massive impact. We decided on an angled angle when capturing the barbies instead of a typical straight on angle, it added far more interest to how it looked. we had tried the initial straight on angle and found it blocked out one of the characters and therefore just looked jumbled, confusing and uninteresting. We wanted to make the crash scene with the dolls very dramatic in order to prepare the scene for the real life actors that will position themselves simularly to the dolls, therefore by making the dolls in elaborate injury poisitons, it allows us to create a more dramatic crash for when the actors end up in the same position for the following scene. We had barbie falling out of the door, with 'ketchup' as blood around here, and ken on the windscreen from being flun also with ketchup around him and up the wall. The ketchup is fairly obvious that it is that, which is what we wanted to create to add to the humour, and to allow us to poor more realistic 'fake' blood onto the real scene so that it adds far more impact on the audiences. Overall we were very happy with the filming of these scenes creating 1 overall scene,