Coursework : Stop Motion

Stop Motion Animation

This week in Media we walked into class and found pots of materials and play dough, we were asked to create a scene or setting with the materials on a paper plate. I paired up with Daisy to create this scene












We were then asked to create a stop motion video, stop motion animation is the art and craft of taking a series of images and then splicing them together in a series. Think of it as flipping through a picture book.

Many films such as Wallace and Gromit use stop motion animation. The films use detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine models, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. The stop motion animation in Wallace and Gromit may duplicate frames if there is little motion, and in action scenes sometimes multiple exposures per frame are used to produce a faux motion blur. One second of film requires 24 separate frames, a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate. During making these films an average of 30 frames are taken per day, this means that just over one second of film is photographed for each day of production. The feature-length The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took 15 months to make. click here to watch Wallace and Gromit.

Some musicians are also a big fan of using stop motion animation for their music videos, one of my favourite music videos using stop motion animation is James - Moving On his use of stop motion animation is very effective in the style of the video.

Using this technique Daisy and I took around 200 photos to create our stop motion video

After looking at stop motion videos I have discovered that if I want to incorporate it into my coursework I would have to start around now as a few seconds of film took around 30 mins to create. It would be a lot of time consuming work.

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