My Media Product - Adam Bacon - 2010

This is my final media product. I am happy with the outcome of it, and after viewing a lot of different types of stop-motion videos I think it is very good. There are some small errors in it, such as various things disappearing, and I think the duvet goes on a little too fast at the end, but all in all I'm really pleased with it. I think all my research into stop-motion animations paid off.

Cravendale Milk Advert - 2007

This advert always makes me laugh. And it is a brilliant example of stop-motion animation. It's short and sells the product very quickly. I love the way it uses bold colours in the video. My stop-motion is now complete and I shall upload it to YouTube tomorrow and put it on my blog. I am happy with the final outcome of it.

Play-Doh - Sony Bravia - 2007

This is one of my favourite adverts of all time. I love the way that the stop-motion has been used to create thousands of clay bunnies running around New York. Clay is the most common tool for stop-motion animation but it can also be the most frustrating. Below is a fantastic video about the making of this advert:

I have nearly finished doing my own little stop-motion video, I just need to edit it all together now as I have taken all the pictures I need.

King Kong - 1933

King Kong is one of the first ever films to use stop-motion animation within the film. It does a fantastic job, even though it does not look that good nowadays, I still love sitting down to watch this film. What amazes me is that nowadays the same techniques are used to create stop-motion, that's spanning just under 80 years of stop-motion animation. It was in fact this film that sparked infamous stop-motion artist Ray Harryhausen to start his career. His first feature film was Mighty Joe Young in 1949. This started a career of many stop-motion films ending in 1981 with possibly his most famous film, Clash of the Titans. I admire all stop-motion animators a lot and think the work they do is amazing and should keep going. I have started a stop-motion animation for my final media product, it's not going to be very long though.

Fell in Love With A Girl - The White Stripes - 2007

This is a stop-motion music video for the song 'Fell in Love With A Girl' by American band The White Stripes, it was directed by Michel Gondry. I love this video, I love the simple idea of using Lego bricks to create a stop-motion video. The length of the song is quite short and the beat is quite fast, the video is almost a blur as it's completed leaving the viewer possibly wanting to watch it again to know what happened. The bright colour's of Lego bricks create a sense of happiness to match the lyrics of the song. Other music video's that have used stop-motion techniques very well include Oren Lavie's 'Her Morning Elegance' and the video for Plan B's song No Good. Watching these video's makes me want to produce my own stop-motion for the media product element. I am not quite sure what sort of storyline I will have to it yet, but hopefully I can create something fairly simple.

PIXELS: Retro Gamers - OneMoreProduction - 2010

This is a great little video that I recently found. It is beautifully edited together and I love the way the retro games have been incorporated into it. One of my favourite's is the Space Invaders shooting down at the cars, hitting a taxi that crumbles into pixels and comes to a standstill. My other favourite moment is the Pacman going along the Subway eating up the stations. I love the way they have mixed the technology with the hand-held camera footage, and I think every little detail has been thought of. It makes me think about possibly doing some stop-motion relating to games for my media product, I'm not quite sure yet though.

Sea Shell - Morph - Aardman - 1977 -1980

This is a short stop-motion film starring popular plasticine character Morph and his friend Chas. In it they argue about music and Morph solves the problem using a clever little technique. I like this short, I think it sums up what every Morph film is about, Morph is doing something fun and happy, Chas does something to interrupt the mood of Morph, Morph finds some unique way of solving the problem. In this film Morph puts a black circle on the floor and sweeps Chas' broken stereo into it, this shows an impossibility within the film but provides a clever bit of comedy for the viewer.