I chose early on in the project to work in stop-motion, as I love the aesthetic and hand-made feel of the pieces created. Along with this, during the professional practices unit I realised how important is it for me to create works that coinscide with my future prospects.
I favour working with stop-motion equipment as I am familar with it and as such, I feel comfortable experimenting without it causing unneccessary stress during the crafting process. However, during the project my disability made it difficult to access the stop-motion studio and so I began problem-solving and booked the accessible rostrum, made sure the lighting was warm to help with headaches, and had the help of a study assistant to aid with retrieving equipment and setting up the camera. This enabled me to comfortably navigate creating during a flare up of my symptoms.
This taught me so much resilience and bravey to advocate for myself in order to remain in the same spaces and have the same opportunities as my peers. My film would have looked drastically different if I had created limitations instead of finding ways to combat difficulties that arose.
After I had my set up figured out, I began shooting. This is the part of the process I find goes extremely quick and smooth, as I have already worked on the hardest parts such as making the props, setting up my area and filming my references.
When moving my props I got into a rythmn of creating, as though it was muscle memory. I really enjoyed it, and my only reflection would be to watch the frames back more frequently as deleting frames and working back into them was exceptionally tedious and whilst I weirdly favoured it, it would have sped up the process a little bit more.
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