Interesting thought with the apple. I'm not sure I would like to have a slowly decomposing apple in the flat. I'd try it in the garden if I had one. It feels like something where you really need to have the tripod / method of placing the camera fixed as the shots would have to be taken over a very long period. The plant idea is a god compromise though as you can keep the plant indoors and it won't smell! I wonder what other things might change drastically enough to enable you to get the shots all in one or two days? I must admit that my first thought was a chunk of icecream slowly melting down.
You could quickly amass a lot of shots though for only a short period of 'film'. TV is 24/25 frames per second (fps). Web video is typically 15 fps. I wonder how low you could get away with before it just looks too much like just a random collection of stills.
You'd want it to reflect something which happened over a reasonable amount of time otherwise people would immediately think it was just a digital video fast forwarded and so less impressive.
I wonder what the fps of amateur stop motion films are?
Interesting...
Interesting thought with the apple. I'm not sure I would like to have a slowly decomposing apple in the flat. I'd try it in the garden if I had one. It feels like something where you really need to have the tripod / method of placing the camera fixed as the shots would have to be taken over a very long period. The plant idea is a god compromise though as you can keep the plant indoors and it won't smell! I wonder what other things might change drastically enough to enable you to get the shots all in one or two days? I must admit that my first thought was a chunk of icecream slowly melting down.
You could quickly amass a lot of shots though for only a short period of 'film'. TV is 24/25 frames per second (fps). Web video is typically 15 fps. I wonder how low you could get away with before it just looks too much like just a random collection of stills.
You'd want it to reflect something which happened over a reasonable amount of time otherwise people would immediately think it was just a digital video fast forwarded and so less impressive.
I wonder what the fps of amateur stop motion films are?