Media: Research: Stop Motion/Animation

During one of our group discussions today, I thought it would be a great idea to include some kind of animation element to our music video. It could be a form of presenting symbolism (such as animating the 'alter-ego' of the protagonist of our narrative) or just be used as a way to make our music video individual in its aesthetics. As we don't have access to animation soft wares suitable for the industry, the best way to create animation for beginners like us could be Stop animation. It would be effective with narrative and performance so that there is a range of camera and editing techniques, as well as providing a more interesting visual for audiences.

Below is some quick research of how to do your own stop animation videos. Because pictures of each minuscule movement of the subject must be taken, it is likely that even if we do stop animation, we would only be able to have a total of 20 seconds footage at the most. However, in terms of film time 20 seconds is quite a lot, and therefore this limit seems a suitable aim to go for.

Inspirational stop animation videos...

DEADLINE

THE MAKING OF DEADLINE

Directed by Bang-yao Liu
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Ian Vargo, Shaun Burdick
Actor: Chun-yao Huang

(They used adobe illustrator to make the designs on the computer and adobe flash to animate them. They then projected it on the projector so they had a floor mat to follow of where to put the post its. When the post its were done, they would cover the projector.)