Eadweard Muybridge

Muybridge was born on the 18th of April 1830 in kingston Upon Thames  He was one of father of photography, an  English photographer who specialized in Animal Locomotion. In his early life, he was arrested charged with the murder of his wife's former secret lover. However, at the court case he was acquitted of all charges.  
He soon began to make his name as photographer. He moved to the United States of America in 1851 to develop his talent further. With the help of former Californian Governor, Leland Standford proving that whether or not all four of the horse's hooves lifted of the ground at the same time during a trot. He did this but a-lining 24 cameras at equal distance from each other and put in place a trip-wire that would trigger the camera's to capture the movement, when the horse's went by. Thus proving his theory.

We used Muybridge's method as inspiration to create our own stop motion picture. We did this by using 6 computers to capture 6 different images, of one movement. E.g 'Iman's Walk' and 'Ruth's Trip'. We then used a website to put the images together, making a short film. On the website, we could slow down or speed up the images to make it as smooth as possible.
The difference between the stop motions produced by the class and that of Muybridge, is undeniably the improvement in technology. I feel that our work was equally as good as his.

FPS is an abbreviation for 'Frames Per Second'. This is the way in which people measure how many shots/pictures are in one frame, literally per second.