Stop-Motion

Over the past few lessons we have been looking at stop-motion clips and how they are developed and produced.

We watched some excelling and internet famous stop-motion clips online such as T-Shirt Wars and Jan Svankmajer's Food: Lunch.

Both of these films looked as if they were very time consuming.  I got to this conclusion after trying to work out how many photographs were needed in order to actually make a short movie; in Svankmajer's clip there were so many frames that in some cases it almost seemed as if it were a video.

I also looked at how they incorporated inhuman abilities into their videos. In T-Shirt Wars, the duo on film had shirts which 'moved by themselves' and would be affected by real-life occurrences.  As well as this, they were also able to place things into their shirts or take things out of them due to the vast number of shirts they had purchased in order to make the video.  In Food: Lunch, Svankmajer used clay on the lower half of his actors' to make it look like the central characters could eat large objects whole without the need to cut them smaller.  All of this would not have been possible if it weren't for the stop-motion element of their films.