Practice Shots

Door Glitch

We decided that we wanted a GIF-like glitch of a door opening and closing in the back of a shot. At first, we considered taking pictures of the door open, ajar, and closed and then using a site like gifmaker.me to make it into a GIF but we decided that this would be difficult to do successfully.

I (Beth) then remembered that I had an app on my phone called iMotion.

This app allows you to set the intervals at which it takes pictures.

We set it to take a picture every 1 second and then left it to take as many pictures as we wanted. Sophie stood at the other side of the door opened and shut it repeatedly while Dan and I watched the pictures we were getting. We stopped once we had taken around 15 pictures.

The app then allows you to adjust the speed that the pictures play. This ranges from 1 to 30fps. The clip above is at 15fps.

We plan on doing this in our final film and layering the glitchy footage over the original shot of the door.