Stop Motion Animation of Falling Object

 
For my stop motion animation, I decided to do a ball drop, represented by a bottle cap, on a cork board (in our very own room 243). As one could guess, I used push pins to suspend my paper platforms and the bottle cap onto the board. I used two different pieces of paper to represent the elastic platform at the bottom one to show it's neutral state, and the other to suggest a heavy ball pressing it down and the same flipped vertically to suggest the release of pressure on the platform. I used one piece of paper in the center to draw the path of action on it; I later edited it out on Photoshop (it's pretty obvious editing). I did not use a traditional tripod to hold the camera up instead I held it up with a pile of boxes. The boxes did not provide a steady base resulting in a shaky cam effect that I thought added a certain texture to the clip and decided not to correct.