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.

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.

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.

The Faint - The Geeks Were Right (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Remix) Music Video - 2008

This is a music video that myself and three friends created in our final year of 6th form, it received an A grade and the highest mark in the class. We storyboarding the whole thing, although ultimately most of the editorial decisions were made during the editing period. I believe that the narrative element of the music video is very easy to understand, once we had completed a first draft of the video and showed some of our friends they all seemed to understand the story and know what was going on. When the boy walks to the school doors and they open three times, this imediately sets the tone of the video for the audience; it tells them that this is going to be a fast paced music video to match the beat of the song. I believe that the lighting throughout is very good and everything flows well in this video. The video has been compared in style to the White Stripes video ‘The Hardest Button To Button'; especially the opening scenes of the boy walking up the corridor and the stop-motion desk sequence towards the end of the video. In fact the stop-motion desk sequence is my favourite bit of the video, it times well with the music and shows my passion for stop-motion animation. I probably will be doing some form of stop-motion video for my media product.

Fantastic Mr. Fox - 2009

The film Fantastic Mr. Fox is the latest stop-motion film that has been released to cinemas worldwide. It was not produced by the infamous Aardman studios but in fact by Regency Enterprises. It is a very good film and one that doesn't get boring. I sat and watched it fascinated by the way the stop-motion was been produced, knowing in my head the way that the production of the film took place makes me amazed at how long people have taken to make films like this. I like the design of the film as well, it's very traditional and has a rustic feel about it. The character voices were filmed on location with the actors acting out the movements of their characters, the producers did this so that the voices would sound more real, I think it comes across really well in the film. Other popular stop-motion films include Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas which was released in 1993, and more recently Aardman's Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005.