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Just thought I'd let all and sundry know that my first Stop Motion animated film (created in part with a Panasonic camcorder) is being featured this week on Stop Mo Shorts: www.stopmoshorts.com/matinee.html. (After this week, it can be found in the Archives section under "Matinee" at www.stopmoshorts.com).
Not normally my sort of thing; but I watched it, and it ain't bad 
I wouldn't have the patience to do something like that.
This is really cool Lucrezia. I'm not surprised it was showcased.
Direction and editing is spot on and the sound synch is perfect (really makes the whole film work IMO).
Did you you go to film school? Always have had huge admiration for animators. You mentioned in part with a Panasonic camcorder. What editing software did you use?
Best wishes, Simon
Whoah - thanks all! To answer a few questions (unfortunately, only the first couple of messages are showing as I write this, so I may miss something out), the brief we were given was to create a "broadcast quality video" on the topic of Solitude that was exactly 2 minutes long (excluding titles). Mine was the only piece of animation (and the only one to treat solitude as something other than a social disease 
The camera I used was a Panasonic NV-GS250 (3 CCD 3Mega pixel), hooked up to my laptop via a firewire cable. Frames were captured using Stop Motion Pro - the raw "footage" (actually TIF files) amounted to some 4 GB for 3000 stills! I did the rough edit in Stop Motion Pro, and then imported everything in Premiere Pro to fine tune it. The soundtrack was composed in Acid, using snippets of sound known as "loops" (eg the dance sequences use 4 or 5 different layers of sounds). Overall, I think the soundtrack was the trickiest bit... Anyway, one last bit of software - After Effects - was used to put together the title sequence. Then everything was thrown back into Premiere.
Posted a part 2 to answer another question which seems to have disappeared into the ether, so here goes again-
The "Kali" sequence was simply shot with all 4 mannequins lined up directly in front of the camera. The weird, delayed shadow effect (like Gary Oldman in Coppola's Dracula!) resulted from the fact that only the 4th mannequin was close enough to the backdrop to cast a shadow.
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