I was so excited to start working on the first scene!! I set everything up how I wanted it and put up a white plastic sheet behind the set to create a plain background. The lighting took ages to set up however and actually taking the real shots took some time to get to. 
At first the lighting was way too bright on the bin and the can was overexposed.
This lighting was a little bit better however the can was still over exposed and I couldn’t understand why until I zoomed in really really close on it and realized that it was the white plastic that was placed just in front of it that made it look overexposed when in fact… it wasn’t. So I removed it and placed it somewhere else.
In the end I decided to put on a red light just next to the table which also helped prevent overexposure and made the shadows look better.
After taking these tests with the lighting and figuring out how many pictures I needed to take to make it look like the bits of waste were falling into the bin and not just slowly placed in (about 10 pictures.. but this also depended on how much of the falling action we saw of the waste) I realized that the background looked nothing short of shite… It was just way too plain. I figured that if I drew a load of bricks and stuck them on to the plastic sheet using tape this would solve the problem. However the bricks A, took ages to draw (so I spray painted some of them black), and B didn’t stick to the plastic very well and fell off after a while.
What was I to do now? Well… I thought I might as well just draw straight onto the sheet.
So! After all the lighting and bricking was done I was ready to start the actual thing!! YES! Here is a little bit of the first scene:
And here is one with some very emotional music quickly put together in Garage Band…
