The Potato Massacre - Adam Bacon - 2007

This is a piece of stop-motion animation that I did within a group in 2007. I really enjoyed doing it even though it was a tedious task, and the ending to the story isn't that good. What I like about it is that we spent a lot of time trying to make it look believable, we used cocktail sticks to hold various potatoes in place and to create the effect of them flying through the air. The music was chosen by someone else in the group, but I think it plays well alongside the carnage within the film. This is one of the first pieces of media that I created, and although the quality isn't very good, I am still incredibly proud of it as I believe that it shows an imaginative story full of odd and bizarre characters. Stop-motion is something that has always fascinated me, Wallace and Gromit, the short stories of Morph and the recent film Fantastic Mr. Fox have always fascinated me. I like the way that they are created and the amount of time and care that is put into them. It can be quite a technical form of media, with the amount of photograph's per second very important, it is commonly 24 frames per second. I am considering doing a short piece of stop-motion as my media product.