Characters, Sets and Props

The DVD that will escape and the case which will be the main characters of my stop-motion.

The other DVDs which will be a part of the stack (to attract the target audience), and the set where the DVD will escape.

The hand that will move the DVD cases and capture the DVD at the end of my stop-motion

I will use no other props.

Frames Per Second and Limitations

For my stop-motion animation I will use an FPS of 00:00:00:04 as this will ensure that my animation won't be too jerky and should flow smoothly. This way it will hopefully not look like several hundred photos and more like one piece of footage from start to end.

Technical
Should the Mac or Final Cut Express not be working, I will work on tasks that do not require any technological aspects to minimise being unproductive.
If the camera stops working or the memory card becomes corrupt, I will ensure I have a backup folder of all of my images so I do not lose them and I will make sure that I have a backup camera should mine not work, or again I will focus on tasks that do not require a Mac or computer.

Time
If I am unable to shoot or edit when I want to, I will make up for the lost time as soon as I am able to to minimise the amount of time lost, or I will stagger out production so that I am not working on it for a massive amount of time and can do whatever else needs to be done without it interfering with my stop-motion.

Use of Materials
I will ensure that I do not lose or misplace any of the DVDs which I plan to use, and if I do, I will make sure that I have backups so it does not disrupt production.

Inspirations

My ideas mostly came from these two clips. Ooglies inspired the characters personalities and the mumbling noises that they will make and the pacman stop-motion inspired the chase that will occur in my own stop-motion. I looked at things such as morph/claymation but decided that it would take too long and be too difficult so I decided to go with normal stop-motion and use a prop as a character and move it a bit each time I took a photo.