Stop Frame idea continued.

As I briefly mentioned in the previous post my stop frame animation idea is going to be including a small toy car, just 1-inch long. This car is going to be the  main character of the video, even though it is obviously an inanimate object. I want to try and make the difficult connection with this and the audience as the small toy goes along a journey through the song. I am hoping to take around 700 images as I know this will create a successful animation running relatively smoothly so the car seems like it will be travelling by itself. The car will start off from a black screen of the titles, moving along a worktop side, and appearing to fall down off the edge, then it will cut to a shot from the floor where the car will emerge from the left of the screen, as if it fell down near the camera and landed. After analysing many different ideas and executions of a stop frame animation I knew that to make it as realistic as possible I would have to include certain aspects in my work. The first, would be to include shots as f we would see them being shot in a real time video, so shots like close ups and panning shots would need to be present. Another thing would be not to move the camera at all, keeping it still is key to making the car look as if it moving realistically. To do this is knew I would have to use a tripod in all of my shots. I had control of two tripods,  a mini version, which stood just a few inches off a surface, or a traditional one that reaches a total height of two metres. If for some shots a tripod was too tall I would rest the camera on another solid surface or the floor. The final thing as I have already mentioned is lots of photos.