Video Layout

For my video I'm showing all the things that make people happy in the form of both film and stills, the order I will put the things that make people happy in, is as followed:

Animation - Video - Animation - Still Image - Animation - Video - Animation - Still Image - Animation - Video - Animation - Still Image - Animation - Video

And the objects/scenarios will fit into the basic layout above and will order as followed:

The sun - Snoozing Alarm - Cup of Tea - Food - Mum and Dad messing - 'I love you' text - Looking good - Alcohol - Me and Mum growing up - Pets - Strangers Smiling - Memories (pic and mix, water bombs) - Finding money on the floor - Being handed a coat to keep warm

To capture the sun I didn't just want to do the obvious which would be to take a photo of the sun so I've decided to make a small stop animation of a painted sun and sky. I like the effect of the stop animation so will be using for most of the things that I'm going to portray. The stop animation effect gives the clip a snapshot, quick, bouncy feel which comes across as happy to me. A few people said their pets made them happy so I filmed my cat walking towards the camera. I went around Manchester asking strangers to smile to the camera because one of the things that makes me happy is getting smiled at by strangers! At first, like every public based photography I do, I was nervous but once I got started I relaxed very quickly and began enjoying talking to the public. Everyone I asked said yes apart from 1 couple so my confidence was high throughout the day. People were interested in asking what I was doing and I was interested in telling them, a few of the people really liked the photos I took and asked for me to email them along to them. I feel as though one of my strong points in photography is approaching and talking to strangers and subtlety persuading them to do what I want them to do, I more often than not have people agreeing to do what I've asked and come out at the end feeling confident and productive. These are the photos I took on that day before editing:

I went through the list of what makes people happy and carried on filming and taking snapshots of each of them to later put together to form a video.