Since we are making a stop motion style video clip I have to consider, when is a stop motion clip not stop motion?

In the initial stop motion exercise we did in class we used over 160 images in 15 seconds. This works out to be close to 11 Frames per second. Our project three clip is suppose to be 25 - 40 seconds long. For a stop motion clip of that length we are looking at around about a total of 300 - 350 frames.

It turns out that a normal frame rate for a video clip is 24 frames per second. Anything under 24 frames per second will be stop motion.

Considering the amount of frames we need to capture for our clip, we need to allow a bit of time to capture them. Over time, natural lighting conditions will change so it may be useful to capture our frames under staged lighting.