How would I achieve this effect?

[bigBiscuit728]

Hello, I'm making a short drama film. Okay, in one scene I want to have the water from the sink mysteriously turn on. What I was thinking about doing was using stop motion to achieve the sink knobs turning by themselves. Any other ideas of how I could do this? Thanks

 

[Zensteve]

Is your project actually claymation? Or are you meaning general stop-motion for live-action?

In any event, if you just want the water to start flowing - under the sink you'll find a faucet to turn on/off the water flow to the sink above. Turn it off and have someone ready to turn it back on, on cue.

 

[bigBiscuit728]

Hey thanks for the reply. I meant general stop motion for live action. Also, I wanted to include the knob turning along with the water turning on.

 

[IndieBudget]

you could shoot it from above, open the faucet w/ a rod. Then mask out the rod using footage taken w/out the rod.... many ways to do this. Stop motion is one... turn the handle a fraction of a turn at a time and only use the footage w/o the hand or whatever turning the faucet