I was really enthusiastic about the stop animation idea. When Jam, Jack and I were discussing, Jemma came up with a narrative idea for Eagle Eye Cherry's "Are You Still Havin' Fun?" with many short stories of different people's lives. One of these included a young child who represented the innocence mentioned in the song's lyrics, stacking books and toys in his room to create a city scape. We thought we could do 'post production stop animation' where we would take screen shots of the clip, and using Adobe Photo shop CSI, draw a thought bubble with the child imagineing himself as a dinosaur, destroying the city scape he was creating. The animation (drawing of the thought bubble) itself would be done in a scratchy style to mimic a child's doodle, and therefore symbolic to the thoughts of the boy.
However, after some consideration I thought about the time limit and realistically, this would be difficult. Although we had the equipment to create an amateur's stop animation video, we would have to start with 15 frames per second. This inevitably, would mean the animation would be slow and the movements would not flow well together. I did think this would be an interesting effect that could also represent the child's undeveloped thoughts, but as a creator of media I really wanted the stop animation (if we would do it) to look as professional as possible. In industry, animators that use stop animation (Wallace and Grommit, Fantastic Mr.Fox) work with 50 frame per second and sometime more.
Therefore, I came with the conclusion that the stop animation idea should not be used. Although it would be intriguing to try and possibly give us more credits in terms of using different technologies, it is not realistic in the time schedules we have currently.
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