Stop Motion Research

Since researching into Allison Schulnik I have decided to look into stop motion further. I had not really considered using this as a technique for my project this year but now I am interested to see if it would be an affective form for my narrative. I have become interested in the use of plasticine or play doh in creating characters, I have ordered myself some plasticine so that I can fully experiment with this style for myself. I am interested to see if I am able to make good characters and I am also interested in just making a stop motion production with models.

I have made a short stop motion animation in the past with can be seen below. I made this as something to showcase for my secondary schools open evening in the media labs. This was quick and easy to make but it still looks affective. There are issues with the lighting changing slightly but for something that was made in about half hour I think it turned out well. For this I used cut out shapes of fish and seaweed for my characters and setting. I enjoyed making this so it will be good to trial it out again for consideration when making my final project.

I decided to find out about other stop motion animations out there to look at different styles and how they worked in a narrative to. The video below is called 'Animal Love: Stop Motion Animation Video'. The animation features a range of different animals, all modelled out of plasticine, chatting away to the 'camera' about finding love.