Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Review show:
Review show based on looking at the most current and popular FIlms. The but comparing them to other similar Films, comparing the actors to what they've been in before and going of previous work of the actors what to expect from them, will it be good? is it over rated? the problem with this is its biased opinions. but i think it would be interesting to have a debate between two people with different opinions. a segment of the show could be a minute rant/argument between a fan of a show and someone who dislikes the show. Viewers would enjoy this, everyone loves watching an argument.
An Example of an Argument is When Kate Hopkins Went onto this morning and had a rant about "baby names" she was saying she judges her childr's friends based off their names. However another woman was arguing back that you cant judge your children's friends, especially because of their names that they didn't even choose themselves.
My target audience would be people aged 12+ mainly because im not doing films rated PG or under, its 12 rated films and over. This is so it can be a fairly serious show and i dont think the attention of kids could be kept through my show, so i think my audience has to be fairly old, at least teenagers.
Constraints could be there may not be good enough films out, but on the other hand if i do films released in the last 6 month there will at least be 5 good films out, other constraints is i need non biased people to do my review, i cant have someone doing a review on the wolf of wall street when they think they're Leonardo DiCaprios' biggest fan. i need neutral opinions off non biased candidates.
Guests consist off 3 people, one to present the show, 2 two debate and then the presenter can add opinions also. i think this will add a good balance and give enough opinions and relevant information out.
My VT will be clips from each movie, possibly just the trailer from each film and a break down of each film, 1:50-2:50 minutes of discussion for each film this will make it fluent and not too long winded.
An Example of an Argument is When Kate Hopkins Went onto this morning and had a rant about "baby names" she was saying she judges her childr's friends based off their names. However another woman was arguing back that you cant judge your children's friends, especially because of their names that they didn't even choose themselves.
My target audience would be people aged 12+ mainly because im not doing films rated PG or under, its 12 rated films and over. This is so it can be a fairly serious show and i dont think the attention of kids could be kept through my show, so i think my audience has to be fairly old, at least teenagers.
Constraints could be there may not be good enough films out, but on the other hand if i do films released in the last 6 month there will at least be 5 good films out, other constraints is i need non biased people to do my review, i cant have someone doing a review on the wolf of wall street when they think they're Leonardo DiCaprios' biggest fan. i need neutral opinions off non biased candidates.
Guests consist off 3 people, one to present the show, 2 two debate and then the presenter can add opinions also. i think this will add a good balance and give enough opinions and relevant information out.
My VT will be clips from each movie, possibly just the trailer from each film and a break down of each film, 1:50-2:50 minutes of discussion for each film this will make it fluent and not too long winded.
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Unit 23 assignment 1
A multi camera set up or, multi camera production means there is more than one camera used throughout the production. essentially because it gives a more fluent flow to the program, for example, if football was one fixed camera that panned left to right it wouldn't be near as entertaining to watch, instead we see it from all different angles and coverage, that brings flow and entertainment. The same can be said for talk shows, game shows and the news.
A single camera production means one camera is used, this is more common in films and productions that don't require as much coverage, also things that arent live recorded, soap opera and films are good example. The single camera can easily be moved and adjusted.
These sorts of programs are all single camera:
Coronation street - built in a set studio to replicate real life surroundings
Eastenders - single camera production, filmed in and around a replica street, not a studio but its a replica street built in private grounds
Bear Grills: Born Survivor - Live recordings following one man, using one camera.
Breaking Bad - Uses multiple real life destinations as the sets but once again, single camera.
NCIS - Uses multiple real life destinations as the sets.
Coronation street - built in a set studio to replicate real life surroundings
Eastenders - single camera production, filmed in and around a replica street, not a studio but its a replica street built in private grounds
Bear Grills: Born Survivor - Live recordings following one man, using one camera.
Breaking Bad - Uses multiple real life destinations as the sets but once again, single camera.
NCIS - Uses multiple real life destinations as the sets.
The following web links talk about the pros and cons of working in a multi camera set up
http://lisagg2.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/the-pros-and-cons-of-multi-cam/
http://venture2thewest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/multiple-camera-vs-single-camera-setup.html
http://bartiib.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/multi-camera-case-study.html
Pros:
- Gives more flow to a production
- Shows more insight to the production by giving us reactions of people on the spot etc
- Modern day live events such as sport wouldnt be entertaining at all if caputred with one camera
- Time Saving
Cons:
- The aesthetic quality isnt as upto scratch as a single camera production
- Costly
- Lighting change from different angle thus giving a different picture, most studios have lighting set up though.
This Program is celebrity juice, one of the biggest pannel shows in britain. This is a multi camera production, this program would NEED to be a multi camera production, if it wasnt it would literally be one camera facing a panel of 6 people and wouldnt move. it would pan left to right, up and down at most. it wouldnt give us the coverage and reactions of the contestants and the audience reactions also.
The program above is the news. This is also a multi camera set up, again its essential that this would need to be multi cam. the news have different presenters for different subjects, i.e Sport, weather and general news etc. The reason this is multi camera is so they can chop and change as quick as possible and once again make the show run more fluently. If it was a single camera we would see the camera man walking over to the weather green screen for example, then back to the news table. Instead we get quick changing commands and a easy running view of whats going on.
Football is a multi camera production, as are most if not every other sport. If football was a single camera production we would see one camera panning left to right, leaving us bored and probably quite noxious. Instead we get numerous views and aspects of the game from when players pass to when players score and run to the fans etc, we see all that head on thanks the the fact football is presented as a multi camera production.
Mock of the week, presented by Dara O'Brein, another news/panel show that involves the contestants walking around, again, if that wasnt done multi cam we would just get simple pans and possibly the cheeky track here and there. instead we have quick chopping and cutting to peoples reactions and actions. For example, Frankie Boyle could make a joke about Dara, We would get a straight away cut to Daras' face to see his reaction, small things like that can make a program what it is. IF it was single camera the joke would be dead by the time the camera got to Daras' reaction.
Out of the 4 programs above i feel that the football and mock of the week make the better use of the multi camera set up to show their audience the best possible footage. With football i feel its absolutely 150% necessary, the camera work on football is amazing, showing all the best angles and coverage. Also football is probably the most viewed out of all the programs, However mock of the week also makes good use of its set up. The fact its a comedy show means jokes are thrown around and offences are just flung around at people so reactions are precious to this show. The news have different presenters for different categories of news. The news also uses their cameras in the same style of mock of the week and even celebrity juice, they're all in a studio and need to chop and change from different people for different reactions or in the news' case, stories. Overall id still say football needs the multi cam set up more and uses it more efficiently. Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Unit 33 Evaluation
Mini focus group
Narrative:
When i asked people for their opinion on the narrative the responses i got were "Funny, Good, Easy to understand and relatable"
Design:
People said the design was "Beautifully designed"
Colour:
My mini focus group described my use of colour as vibrant and mood setting
Set:
When asked about the opinions on my set people said "Good, Cool, Creative and realistic"
Improvements:
I asked for improvements but people didn't give me any, i personally feel i need to change the music. But no specific improvements were given to me
Audience:
My audience is kids, 3-11? My target audience is achieved.
Personal Opinion
I set out to make a dinosaur fight scene, however i needed a cause for the fight so i made it into a yoghurt promotion/advert kind of thing. Personally id say i delivered my goal.
I wanted to achieve a sense of humour and to make a quirky animation, mainly to direct and aim more at my target audience which was younger children that are obviously like yoghurts. PERSONALLY id say i achieved that, my animation uses childish features such as the quirky sound effects and the mumbling of dinosaurs and the cartoony noises when dinosaurs are thrown about etc. Although it involves violence its not harsh violence that might not appeal to kids, its very mellow and easy going violence, a dinosaur hitting another dinosaur away with its tail isn't ever going to effect a child. SO although it includes light violence id still say it appeals to kids. My favourite part of the animation was the Main dinosaur, it took me a while to make but i enjoyed making it and using it in my stop motion, i made it so i could maximise movement by giving it a bendy tail, bendy stubby arms etc. I also enjoyed my set, it was hard to recreate a desert but id say i did a decent enough job. I also liked the pan of the dinosaurs when they are in a face off and the focus changes from dinosaur to dinosaur, it took a while to get it like that but i'm proud of the outcome! Overall i don't see many weaknesses, however, i feel the "yoghurt" could of been more realistic or a better model? But i had to do what i could with what materials i had.
Sound wasn't an issue, apart from the backing track. I wanted to find a upbeat cheery song that was inviting for the audience, i had an original backing track but i felt it was too dark and miserable for a children's advert. So i changed it to an upbeat song sampled from the movie 'Dinosaurs'. I feel this track worked much better. The muttering of the dinosaurs is actually my own recording, i wanted cartoony and quirky sounds to come from my dinosaur, If i'm honest the Mr. Bean sounds and speech were the inspiration that i based my sounds off. Then as for the impact sounds they were simply taken from youtube and converted! To me i think that the noise when the dinosaur is flung and hits the ground is my favourite part of sound. I think thats where the most laughs were given. Also i just think if that sound wasn't there the edit and the animation would just feel bland and basic.
Screening Review:
I previewed my stop motion in college on the open day to parents, the questions i asked the parents were:
What did you think about the storyline?
What did you think about the character design?
what did you think about the colours/drawing?
what did you think about the set?
What bits do you think could have been better?
My target audience was.... do you think it targets them?
My storyline got allot of similar answers, mainly stating that it was "easy to understand, easy to follow and enjoyable". people said it was obvious they were fighting over the "yoghurt" and the winner was clearly shown etc, to here that made me pretty chuffed with it all, knowing people got the gist of it and what was happening tells me my stop motion was pretty successful! My character design got mixed reactions, non negative, but people were shocked when i showed them the set i used and my characters, people thought they were so small, i think people expected them to be around 7 inches? but when they saw the models were about 3 inches tall and the set was built into a cardboard box they were astonished! people liked the mix of greens on the dinosaur and the realistic colours used. People didn't really give any negative criticism but i think thats because people aren't going to be brutal on you are they? However, one parent did say that it was possibly too short? that they were enjoying it and it came to end too quick? which i suppose is a fair point, it was only 37 seconds but how long can you really drag out clay dinosaurs fighting over a yoghurt? My target audience was children. Parents loved this. they said they're younger kids would love this and common answers were really blunt but answers were "Definitely" One word answers dont give much away but atleast people agreed with my target audience!
I personally found the screening useful, talking to older people and explaining my work to them made things easier. i'd rather talk to adults that are willing to listen and understand what im trying to tell them instead of kids that are half listening and dont care, i find parents do care because they've come to look intentionally? However i feel they have to be nice to you but non the less its the results i got and the results i got i happilly accept.
Narrative:
When i asked people for their opinion on the narrative the responses i got were "Funny, Good, Easy to understand and relatable"
Design:
People said the design was "Beautifully designed"
Colour:
My mini focus group described my use of colour as vibrant and mood setting
Set:
When asked about the opinions on my set people said "Good, Cool, Creative and realistic"
Improvements:
I asked for improvements but people didn't give me any, i personally feel i need to change the music. But no specific improvements were given to me
Audience:
My audience is kids, 3-11? My target audience is achieved.
Personal Opinion
I set out to make a dinosaur fight scene, however i needed a cause for the fight so i made it into a yoghurt promotion/advert kind of thing. Personally id say i delivered my goal.
I wanted to achieve a sense of humour and to make a quirky animation, mainly to direct and aim more at my target audience which was younger children that are obviously like yoghurts. PERSONALLY id say i achieved that, my animation uses childish features such as the quirky sound effects and the mumbling of dinosaurs and the cartoony noises when dinosaurs are thrown about etc. Although it involves violence its not harsh violence that might not appeal to kids, its very mellow and easy going violence, a dinosaur hitting another dinosaur away with its tail isn't ever going to effect a child. SO although it includes light violence id still say it appeals to kids. My favourite part of the animation was the Main dinosaur, it took me a while to make but i enjoyed making it and using it in my stop motion, i made it so i could maximise movement by giving it a bendy tail, bendy stubby arms etc. I also enjoyed my set, it was hard to recreate a desert but id say i did a decent enough job. I also liked the pan of the dinosaurs when they are in a face off and the focus changes from dinosaur to dinosaur, it took a while to get it like that but i'm proud of the outcome! Overall i don't see many weaknesses, however, i feel the "yoghurt" could of been more realistic or a better model? But i had to do what i could with what materials i had.
Sound wasn't an issue, apart from the backing track. I wanted to find a upbeat cheery song that was inviting for the audience, i had an original backing track but i felt it was too dark and miserable for a children's advert. So i changed it to an upbeat song sampled from the movie 'Dinosaurs'. I feel this track worked much better. The muttering of the dinosaurs is actually my own recording, i wanted cartoony and quirky sounds to come from my dinosaur, If i'm honest the Mr. Bean sounds and speech were the inspiration that i based my sounds off. Then as for the impact sounds they were simply taken from youtube and converted! To me i think that the noise when the dinosaur is flung and hits the ground is my favourite part of sound. I think thats where the most laughs were given. Also i just think if that sound wasn't there the edit and the animation would just feel bland and basic. Screening Review:
I previewed my stop motion in college on the open day to parents, the questions i asked the parents were:
What did you think about the storyline?
What did you think about the character design?
what did you think about the colours/drawing?
what did you think about the set?
What bits do you think could have been better?
My target audience was.... do you think it targets them?
My storyline got allot of similar answers, mainly stating that it was "easy to understand, easy to follow and enjoyable". people said it was obvious they were fighting over the "yoghurt" and the winner was clearly shown etc, to here that made me pretty chuffed with it all, knowing people got the gist of it and what was happening tells me my stop motion was pretty successful! My character design got mixed reactions, non negative, but people were shocked when i showed them the set i used and my characters, people thought they were so small, i think people expected them to be around 7 inches? but when they saw the models were about 3 inches tall and the set was built into a cardboard box they were astonished! people liked the mix of greens on the dinosaur and the realistic colours used. People didn't really give any negative criticism but i think thats because people aren't going to be brutal on you are they? However, one parent did say that it was possibly too short? that they were enjoying it and it came to end too quick? which i suppose is a fair point, it was only 37 seconds but how long can you really drag out clay dinosaurs fighting over a yoghurt? My target audience was children. Parents loved this. they said they're younger kids would love this and common answers were really blunt but answers were "Definitely" One word answers dont give much away but atleast people agreed with my target audience!
I personally found the screening useful, talking to older people and explaining my work to them made things easier. i'd rather talk to adults that are willing to listen and understand what im trying to tell them instead of kids that are half listening and dont care, i find parents do care because they've come to look intentionally? However i feel they have to be nice to you but non the less its the results i got and the results i got i happilly accept.
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Unit 33 - Assignment 2
My stop motion is going to based inside a desert setting with the main characters being clay made dinosaurs. The dinosaurs will be fighting over a product.
My animation is an advert for a yoghurt company. The First half will start as an opening scene with a specified product. Dinosaur 1 spots it from a distance. D1 goes to explore the product and goes up to it with great curiosity. Dinosaur 2 spots D1 looking at the product and feels the need to also check out the product. D2 goes up to Product. D1 gets protective and stands infront of product and lets out a roar. D2 shows no intimidation and takes a kind of battle stance. D2 charges at D1 but D1 grapples D2 and throws over shoulder, with this ill be using my examples of arcs and gravity. D2 gets back up and takes another charge at D1 from behind, this will show D2 tackling D1 to the ground. D1 struggles but forces D2 off its back. D2 and D1 are left to a face off the both charge at eachother for a final time. However D1 who originally found the product pulls a sly move and turns around and smacks d2 away with its tail. D2 is shown slamming against clay made rocks and is left knocked out and D1 is shown eating the yoghurt.
Target audeince and genre:
The use of dinosaurs would make my target audience aimed at people young, it would seem quite suitable for children aged 6+. There isn't any dialogue in my animation besides roars so the target audience isnt very specific. Overall the advert im making will probably get a lager male response compared to females. Dinosaurs are quite a masculine, this is why i assume my animation will appeal to younger males. The screen shot below is a couple of top selling boys toys from amazon, as you can see its action figures and mythical and fantasy figures that are linked to dinosaurs and dragons etc.
The audio for the animation will be a soundtrack of dramatic music that will run in the background throughout the whole animation. THe bangs and the impacts of the dinosaurs when they are thrown to the ground and the sounds of punches or tail wacks etc.
Children's adverts are watched the Most in the hours of 3pm-6pm. Popular adverts watched by children consist of the Hairbo adverts, these adverts are about a young girl that is incharge of the haribos in her house and her parents try to steal them etc, children like the concept of this because it shows dominance for children. they may be to young to understand that completely but its subliminal .
Design
Similar products:
The cravendale advert is a very similar style, its stop motion advert that is focused around one product (milk). This links to my idea which supports surrealism, cravendale is about cows and pirates dancing around because they have no milk left. My advert is about DINOSAURS fighting Over YOUGHURTS. they're both surreal ideas and are both for dairy products. The use of action figures in the cravendale advert links to mine, im also using figures but clay, but the relation is there.
The bring on the trumpets advert is also a kids advert selling food. The use of colour in the advert to represent the food are similar to mine, bright colours to represent positivity also the fact that the sweet
Story Board:
P1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6JA5LhpaCCfS0dnRlF1TElBOHc/edit?usp=sharing
P2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6JA5LhpaCCfQXpfOFFjd2cxcnc/edit?usp=sharing
Sound:
ill use this link for the noise of the impacts and punches in my stop motion
The 'Rip their heads of and suck their guts out' will be taken from the link below
This sound track wil be used throughout my whole animation.
My animation is an advert for a yoghurt company. The First half will start as an opening scene with a specified product. Dinosaur 1 spots it from a distance. D1 goes to explore the product and goes up to it with great curiosity. Dinosaur 2 spots D1 looking at the product and feels the need to also check out the product. D2 goes up to Product. D1 gets protective and stands infront of product and lets out a roar. D2 shows no intimidation and takes a kind of battle stance. D2 charges at D1 but D1 grapples D2 and throws over shoulder, with this ill be using my examples of arcs and gravity. D2 gets back up and takes another charge at D1 from behind, this will show D2 tackling D1 to the ground. D1 struggles but forces D2 off its back. D2 and D1 are left to a face off the both charge at eachother for a final time. However D1 who originally found the product pulls a sly move and turns around and smacks d2 away with its tail. D2 is shown slamming against clay made rocks and is left knocked out and D1 is shown eating the yoghurt.
Target audeince and genre:
The use of dinosaurs would make my target audience aimed at people young, it would seem quite suitable for children aged 6+. There isn't any dialogue in my animation besides roars so the target audience isnt very specific. Overall the advert im making will probably get a lager male response compared to females. Dinosaurs are quite a masculine, this is why i assume my animation will appeal to younger males. The screen shot below is a couple of top selling boys toys from amazon, as you can see its action figures and mythical and fantasy figures that are linked to dinosaurs and dragons etc.
The audio for the animation will be a soundtrack of dramatic music that will run in the background throughout the whole animation. THe bangs and the impacts of the dinosaurs when they are thrown to the ground and the sounds of punches or tail wacks etc.Children's adverts are watched the Most in the hours of 3pm-6pm. Popular adverts watched by children consist of the Hairbo adverts, these adverts are about a young girl that is incharge of the haribos in her house and her parents try to steal them etc, children like the concept of this because it shows dominance for children. they may be to young to understand that completely but its subliminal .
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Design
The colours will be quite light but faded colours to stick to the dinosaur and prehistoric effect and look of the animation. The dinosaurs will be a blue and another in red. The red being the 'villain' and red usually generates connotations of evil and blood etc so it fits the vallainous effect its supposed to give off. The blue represents whats right and victory. The set design will be built in a medium to large box with a layer of sand glued to the floor and a back drop of mountains, trees and skys etc.
The cravendale advert is a very similar style, its stop motion advert that is focused around one product (milk). This links to my idea which supports surrealism, cravendale is about cows and pirates dancing around because they have no milk left. My advert is about DINOSAURS fighting Over YOUGHURTS. they're both surreal ideas and are both for dairy products. The use of action figures in the cravendale advert links to mine, im also using figures but clay, but the relation is there.
The bring on the trumpets advert is also a kids advert selling food. The use of colour in the advert to represent the food are similar to mine, bright colours to represent positivity also the fact that the sweet
Story Board:
P1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6JA5LhpaCCfS0dnRlF1TElBOHc/edit?usp=sharing
P2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6JA5LhpaCCfQXpfOFFjd2cxcnc/edit?usp=sharing
Sound:
ill use this link for the noise of the impacts and punches in my stop motion
This sound track wil be used throughout my whole animation.
There are more sounds used in my production but they are recorded by me on the field recorder.
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Unit 30 - Assignment 1
Principles of Animation
Time. Time it takes to make the action happen the number of frames you need to move the object. The fewer frames the faster. The more frames, the slower.Overlap and Follow through, parts of an object that dont all move at the same time, you have to think about where the centre of gravity is and where it will finish.
Arcs and poses, movement doesnt tend to be straight lines, but it follows curves or arcs, to show more natural movement
Secondary action is natural movement of the body, such as arms swinging whilst moving etc.
Time. Time it takes to make the action happen the number of frames you need to move the object. The fewer frames the faster. The more frames, the slower.Overlap and Follow through, parts of an object that dont all move at the same time, you have to think about where the centre of gravity is and where it will finish.
Arcs and poses, movement doesnt tend to be straight lines, but it follows curves or arcs, to show more natural movement
Secondary action is natural movement of the body, such as arms swinging whilst moving etc.
Old Stop Motion:
The Tale of The Fox
Directed by: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Date: 1st January 1930
King Kong
Directed by: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Date: 1933
The King kong fight scene was really impressive for its time, the use of arcs are used quite well, the T-Rexs' claws often move and curl. As king kong is tussled to the ground his legs bend as he falls and his arms fall in sync with his body, this also uses the principle of gravity. however, at around 00;48 the T-Rex is thrown to the floor but his back doesn't bend or move as he's being picked up and its really noticeable. The POV of the fight isnt great at all, it doesnt show much and is really restricted, there could be more variation. The footage is very jerky, this makes the audience think less of the animation, it makes it look unrealistic and therfor makes the audience but for the time it was produced you cant fault it much at all.
Jan Svankmajor - 1934
Ray Harryhausen - 1938
Claymation:
Little red riding hood
Directed by: Ray Harryhausen
Little red riding hood
Directed by: Ray Harryhausen
Little Read riding hood created by Ray Harryhausen was a very early day puppet stop motion made in the early 50s. THe sound of Little read riding hood opens with narration. The Naration engages the audience, allot of viewiers enjoy narration because its formal and can make the story easier to follow. Also the narration gives us a sligh background to wh Little red riding hood is. it tells us how she got her name and where she's going. Ray harryhausen uses puppet throughout this stop motion. His use of arcs are amazing, from where the wolf walks onto the rocks to when she sits own cross legged, this brings realism to the animation, arcs are realistic, therfor the audience are more engaged. There is more sound used throughout this animation, there is sound used when the wolf is chasing grandma, its dramatic fast paced music, this is creating tension and gives the viewer a sense of worry. Follow through at 6:33 when little red riding hood feels the Wolfs nose, she feels the wolfs nose to show little red riding hoods curiosity and when the audience know the main character has something to be curious about there could be an issue. More arcs are used to a good effect when the wolf is shot over the balcony and kind of rolls backwards, again, this is for realism. Also as the wolf falls the principal of gravity is played with. ONCE again, more realism.
Stop Motion:
Mountain Music
Director: Will Vinton
Date: 1960
Children's Stop Motion:
The Nightmare Before Christmas:
Directed by: Tim Burton
Date: 13th October 1993
Claymation:
Godzilla Vs Anguirus
Directed by: Fred THe Dinosaur Man
Date: 23rd of June 2013
The Claymation battle between Godzilla vs Aguirus is amazingly done for a unrecognised animator. The use of sound is used to a maximum. from the striking of punches, roars and impact sound effects. Fred the dinosaur man really uses his arcs to create a sense of realism, he makes tails wiggle spontaneously as a real dinosaur probably would. As the clay dinosaur run or fall the arcs of the legs are timed to perfection. The joints realistically move in sync with the dinosaurs being tossed around. Also when the dinosaurs are being thrown around the principal of gravity is being used to add MORE realism and life like effect. Overall the animation is great and entertaining to watch for the audience.
The Claymation battle between Godzilla vs Aguirus is amazingly done for a unrecognised animator. The use of sound is used to a maximum. from the striking of punches, roars and impact sound effects. Fred the dinosaur man really uses his arcs to create a sense of realism, he makes tails wiggle spontaneously as a real dinosaur probably would. As the clay dinosaur run or fall the arcs of the legs are timed to perfection. The joints realistically move in sync with the dinosaurs being tossed around. Also when the dinosaurs are being thrown around the principal of gravity is being used to add MORE realism and life like effect. Overall the animation is great and entertaining to watch for the audience.
Real Life Stop Motion:
T Shirt Wars
Made in: 2013
i have chose T Shirt wars because of its use of soundtracks and its attention to in real life detail, for example at 0.43 a man is shown inflating a balloon on his t shirt, the sound matches what the balloon noise makes in real life. The slapstickish comedy aspect of the stop motion is entertaining to watch. as far as the principals of animation go, this isnt a great example, arcs are ignored etc but the focus is on the T shirts and despite the animations lack of principals its still entertaining to watch and keeps the viewer hooked.
Real Life Stop Motion:
Mario Kart In Real Life:
Directed by: Simon Lachapelle
Date: 8th December 2013
Old Vs New
It doesnt take an expert to realise that animation has come a LONG way. Especially in the stop motion aspect of things. If we refer to my time line, we can see that the king kong fight is one of the first things on it, in the king kong we see a small attention to detail but for its time its classic. For its time it was considered the cutting edge of stop motion and probably inspired and motivated allot of animators. However if that was in this day and age it probably wouldnt even be noticed. We look at more recent things such as the nightmare before christmas, another stop motion animation and its flawless. The Arcs and use of gravity etc are used to absolute perfection, in some parts of the film we see overlaps, gravity and arcs all used at once time. Look at the image above Jack skellington is leaning (use of gravity) and his arms are curved in a sinister manor (Arcs) and His head is overlapping over his hand. We would be lucky too see more than one of them aspects in the King kong animation at one time. Slightly Later is Little Red Riding Hood by Ray Harryhausen, which was made with Puppets, You can tell animation has advanced a little bit from King kong to little red riding hood, but still, its nothing that we could see on our TVs today. Concluding the old vs new, we have to give credit to old animations because back then they had technology not even remotely near as good as what we have access too, but their use of what they did have produced some classic and timeless animations. However, our day and age they make some absolutely immense things. Some animations these days dont even look like they're made out of clay, i.e Paranorman and The Newest Wallace and Grommit film (Curse of the Wear rabbit) they look like theyve been made on a computer when in reality its exactly what was used 50 years ago. Truly Amazing.
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