Stop Animation Research

Conventions
For my Final product, I will be creating a Music Video using an original piece of music. The genre of the piece will be Indie/ Alternative. The techniques that I would like to involve in this piece is both Stop animation and filming which will be done with a Cam corder. However  I have decided to use Stop animation in my video as I believe it is a very effective tool, whether used to capture a series of chronological character based events, or the movement of objects. Also I believe that it would appeal to my target audience as it is a device which is not regularly used in music video's and therefore would be something different to the typical "flesh is best" video recorded style music video. This again relates to the alternative music genre which my music video is based upon.














Above are a few examples of Stop Animation videos from You tube which I found interesting yet also helpful. To create a Stop Animation Video a still's camera is used to take numerous pictures of a certain action.
 The effect is visible as each photo or scene is created by taking an image of a person or object that has changed ever so slightly in to a different position.However, as I have discovered as a result of attempting to create a stop animation video, the effect of the video is altered dramatically depending on how much you alter the position of objects or people after each shot, meaning that when I barely altered the position of the objects, the result was a fluid almost like it had been filmed.
Yet when I changed the position of the object more it was evident that they were taken with a camera. After that these pictures are "put together" in the editing process. Further the pros of using this technique is that you can create things that cannot be done using filming. This is shown in the Video "Lost things" which has an almost Alice in wonderland appeal to it. An example of this is when the main character is "falling" down a "hole" in the carpet. This could not have been filmed without the use of special effects if it was filmed,however as the director of this video has used stop animation, they have been able to fool there audience into believing it is actually a hole the main character is falling down. This use of creating effects that can not be done easily or effectively with filming has also been used in the Video "Her morning elegance" where the character appears to be underwater, These are both examples of a kind of "trick foolery." Also what can also be used in stop animation and is used in the video featuring the artist Ok Go, is that scene changes are in time to the beat of the music. This is a technique that I will be using with my music Video as I believe it is an effective technique to use.