How I created my stop motion animation....

To create my stop motion animation I took a series of pictures of me in different positions of frontflips and 360s and such. I ended up with just over 60 photographs. I then opened every photograph in photoshop and roughly got rid of the background using the lasso tool and the delete button on my keyboard, this made cutting the pictures out alot easier and saved ink :). I then printed all of my pictures and cut them out, I also printed out my background photographs. Then I opened Adobe Premiere and connected the video camera to the computer. I then set up my backgrounds and positioned the camera. Then I introduced my cut out images to the background and clicked on 'grab frame' on Premiere. I clicked 'grab frame' every time I moved or changed an image. Once I had all my frames captured I then saved my animation as a video file. Then using the 'split clip' button I 'cut' the video in several parts so I could add different effects to improve the quality, I mainly used slow motion as some parts were too fast.

Once I had my video how I wanted it, I decided to make some music. I did this by finding the sounds I wanted and shortening them and mixing them in 'Windows Movie Maker'( because its a whole load simpler than Premiere). I decided I wanted slightly comical music as my animation isnt overly serious. I then simply imported the video into Movie Maker and overlayed the music on top of it, I then saved it under a suitable name.