Pingu
Pingu, is a stop motion animated television series, created with the use of characters made from clay. One option we have considered as a group is to create our characters from clay or plasticine, as many effective stop motion animations have been created by using these. This would benefit us, as we'd be able to show the characters facial and bodily expressions. However, one problem may be that by using this option the process would become very time consuming and it could also become very tricky to move the figures into different positions without ruining them.
Tim Burton's - Vincent
James & The Giant Peach
James & The Giant Peach, is known as a Borderline Stop Motion film, which includes stop motion along side stop motion. Normally, films that use this are almost entirely animated, however they may include a live action main character that works along side the stop motion animated characters or landscapes. On the other hand, they can be used to show different periods of time or a characters imagination.
Elf
Similarly, Elf is also a borderline stop motion film, where the main character (live action) acts along side the animated characters. Unlike, James & The Giant Peach, Elf, mainly consists of live action and only includes stop motion characters at various points within the film. Stop motion borderline films, doesn't necessarily try to look realistic or believable.
Without wishing to be the harbinger of doom this style of stop motion not only takes months to produce it also takes years to perfect and you simply don't have the time needed to produce the standard of work you'd wish to. It takes 24 frames per second to make stop motion, your mumra song is 182 seconds long, thats 4368 separate images! If you're optimistic and say it'll take you 20 seconds per image to move and take the photo then thats over 24 hours non stop work before you've even uploaded and edited your footage!
ReplyDeleteIf you stay true to your inspiration then there not much need for movement from the actual figurines, if you get your composition correct then you can create emotion and narrative without your models actually doing anything. Look at the Spike Jonze model for an example of lighting, angles and sound creating emotions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQXQGaasUg
I'd also recommend you reconsider not including performance, every video you've analysed includes a performance, it's a convention of music videos so try not to ignore it. The Kaiser Cheifs have made you video and they included performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObzgUfCl28&ob=av2e
Swedish artist Stylewar made the video so look into their stuff too.