stop motion with glow sticks

Composition: For the stop-motion, I just chose a basic composition of placing the subject in the center of the frame. I used only the lighting from the glow-sticks, and I chose a black background (dark room) to isolate the glow sticks.

Concept: My general idea for this was to create sort of a "constant wave" of color. I wanted to make it seem as though the colors were moving across the frame and were sort of "pulsing". I honestly just had a bunch of glow sticks in my fun drawer and wanted to do something with them.

Method: To do this, I shut off all the lights in my bedroom and covered my coffee table with a black sheet. I then switched the order of the glow sticks for every frame (5 frames total), then I repeated all 5 of the images several times and put them in Final Cut.

Motivations:  My motivation for this was that I had NO idea whatsoever for this assignment; I had a bunch of glow sticks and wondered "Hmm, what can I do with these things?" I then thought of a pulsing sort of wavelength of color and tried to express that through my stop motion video.

Interpretation: I feel as though I did not get much of a response from the viewers of this video. My roommates thought it was cool and fun, however they have not seen many stop motion videos, so they do not know about the other WAY cooler things that are out there. 

Evaluation: I think I could have done a much better job with keeping the glow sticks in the same position so that the moving looked more smooth. I wonder how others evaluate this work---it is a little strange and elementary, I wonder how I could do it better?

Extension: I would like to work with stop-motion again, but probably not with glow sticks. It would be fun to do a stop-motion drawing or painting exercise.