I'm very interested in trying out some stop motion for my coursework. Still somewhere between The children's drama brief and the music video, so here are some examples of both that I found interesting...
Music Video
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead ⊱ JazZstePpa Remix ⊰ from Jazz steppa on Vimeo.
Children's Television
Both pieces seem to develop this idea of animated, smaller characters, having their own world within our own. You see Morph doing his magic show in amongst some life sized posessions, and the black toy moving across the desk.
I thought the music video became fairly abstract in parts, but it kind of works. Suits the style of music very well. There didn't seem to be a unifying narative as such but, then again, does it really need one? The simple movements alone seemed to provide amusment enough.
The children's show is centred around one loveable character 'Morph', and the show follows him on some suitably adorable adventures. The challenge in this type of work is to create a character that children will enjoy watching in the same way they do Morph, Postman Pat or any other successful children's character for that matter.
In terms of animation, Morph is far in excess of the level I can hope to achieve, but I think I can take some ideas from it and translate them to my own work. The use of a single protagonist in a simple humanoid form should make a realistic effect more achievable. The levels of animation in the music video are far more approachable. It seems to have been created fairly quickly, away from proffessional studios. I should look further into home-grown stop-motion of this style in the future...
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