For our Advanced Video Production final project in May 2011, we were asked to create a stop-motion video involving one of the most famous child’s toys in history: Mr. Potato Head. While it seemed simpler to create a comedy out of this assignment, I wanted to see if it was possible to, in just 3 minutes, create an emotional attachment between the viewer and this little inanimate object. Hopefully, I’ve succeeded.
In all honesty, I found this project significantly more difficult than any other I’ve done before; each picture took up about 4 frames, which there are 30 of in a second, so editing together just 5 seconds of this piece took about an hour.
I hope you enjoy it, and thanks as always for watching.
The pictures were shot with a Canon Rebel T2i
Music credit: “Love is All”, by The Tallest Man on Earth, the entire inspiration for this script.