flip book analysis

The first flip book I created shows Nicole jumping from a wall. This flip book starts with Nicole standing on the wall, she then jumps off of the wall, she then appears to jump back onto the wall. This then repeats. To create this flip book I had my camera on fully automatic setting meaning that the shutter speed, aperture and ISO were all controlled for me. As the camera which I was using was fully automatic, this was my only option, however in an ideal situation I would have been able to alter these factors manually. For this flip book I asked Nicole if she could jump from the wall in City Park while I photographed her using the rapid shutter setting on my camera. I used this setting as it captures any movement at each stage meaning that even fast moving objects are captured so that each photograph taken only differs slightly from the last and this is the way that flip books work the best. An effective flip books images are similar with minor changes between each image, this makes for a flip book which flows nicely. Once I had taken these images, I then contact printed them and printed this set of photographs 4 times. Once I had cut all of the images to size,  I created the flip book, reversing the order in which the imagers were arranged. This gave the illusion of Nicole jumping on and off of the wall. I arranged the flip book in this way as I thought it would add a different spin to the flip book and make it slightly more interesting. The completed flip book consists of around 80 photographs and I found that this is a good number of images to use when creating a flip book as the flip book is not too short and there are not too many images that the flip book becomes hard to flip. I am happy with the way this flip book turned out as I like the way the sequence of images is repeated but in reverse at stages throughout the flip bo0ok. This gives the illusion that there is extra movement which did not actually occur.

The second flip book I created shows the feet of a man walking through city park. I created this flip book in the exact same way as the last one, my camera was on a fully manual setting and I used the continuous shutter mode in order to capture the movement of the mans feet as he walked. This flip book consists of 40 images and I feel that this Is not enough as the flip book seems very thin and does not seem to flip through the images in the best way that it could. When flipping through this flip book, I feel that it reaches the end far too soon. To correct this I would have to increase the amount of images which I used. A way of doing this would be to shoot with the continuous shutter for longer so I would have more images to work with. Another way I could do it would be to reverse the order of the images as I did with the previous flip book. I am not as happy with this flip book as I am with the first one I made as I feel that it does not flow as nicely and is not as nice to view. If I was to re do this flip book I would make sure I have more images to work with.