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Comedy sketch StopMotion

The technique we used to create this stop motion, was we cut out images from the various magazines, and planned out what we where going to do using a storyboard. We moved the images once per frame, and then exported it to fcp and put to on sound effects and voice overs to complete the stop motion. There are various examples to do with this type of animation, such as;
Examples of cut-out animations which are; South Park, Phonejacker.
Example of someone who has used this technqiue; Edwin S. Porter, who created 'Jack and the beanstalk'
This technique is good because we do not have to draw the pictures by hand, instead we used images from newspaper and magazines. On the other hand the technique is bad because it can be very time-consuming.
Ours was sucessful but just needed to make it longer, and make sure the the audio is louder and clearer and add another scene into it to make it more interesting.

Eaweard Muybridge

Eaweard Muybridge is a photograpgher who spent most of his time in the united states but he also influenced in film making. He was labelled a 'justifiable homicide' because he found out that his wife had a lover and Eaweard sought the lover out and killed him, people in his defence pleaed insanity due to a head injury which changed his personality to erratic and unstable.
He is famous for his uses of multiply cameras to capture motion, his zoopraxiscope, and motion pictures.
Muybridge managed to capture motion by using multiple cameras or zoopraxiscope, he proved that horses fly when they gallop by getting multiple cameras and using a tripwire to trigger when the horse steps on the tripwire and then he collected the pictures and puts them together to create a stop motion animation.
I created the experiment by using 6 macs and 6 people and 1 person to do the walking by and collected the pictures from each macs and put them together making sure it each fps was correct.

Zoetrope

Zoetrope is an equitment used in the old days in the cinemas, used to show and create animations. The video above is an example of a zoetrope at work, by using a comic strip and drawing a little ball onto it going up and down. On paper it looks simple but then once it is put onto the zoetrope and spun around it looks like a moving animation.

Persistance of vision is when we see the flickering light whlist watching the movie on the screen we beileve that it is continuois and because of the flashes that we keep seeing on the scree of at least every one-tenth of a second, thanks to the persistance of this vision we cannot tell when the flash ends or starts.

The Disadvantages of using a Zoetrope is that you could break the illusion by simply looking at the top of the drum. Another disadvantage is that the narrative has to be circular and the freeze frames are limited.

The Advantages of using a Zoetrope is that it animate the simple comic strips used.

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