LETTER TO BBC

Dear BBC

I'm writing to you a letter of complaint about the recent showing of News Night that i witnessed.The reasons why i'm complaining is because i'm not impressed with the comments made by the famous historian David Starkey, He made a lot of comments that i reckon and i'm sure most of your viewers might have thought was a bit racist. Saying that the riots was caused by Black people alone makes someone as intelligent as him seem so narrow minded and also if it was he's opinion : some things are better not said . It seems as if he's mind has been left in the past and he thinks that ,that was entirely acceptable to say in public like it might have been when he

was a younger person.
A lot of comments discussed me for example he mentioned "the whites are becoming black" as if black people have a certain way of behaving. Also the fact that he is not taking in peoples corrections and is persistent in proving he is right and each time sounding worst and even more racist is just shocking       

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STOP MOTION!

The Technique i used to in order to create this animation was cut out stop motion. One of the first steps of making this animation was to go through newspapers and and magazines and cut out any images which i thought would make a good story , After doing so i then opened up istopmotion programme on the  mac computers and started taking different shots per frame and moving the images around in order to make movement.when we finally completed making the story we imported the video in final cut pro and that's were we added finishing touches for example voice overs and music and general audio.There are many Different animations that have been created with stop motion that have been published on t.v , the very most recent one is the FaceJacker and PhoneJacker , other examples are : South park ,intro to Russell Howards good news and have i got news for you intro.

One of the First people to use stop motion to create animations was Terry Gilliam and Lotte Reiniger. Terry Gilliam created the animation Monty Python and lotte Reiniger created a stop motion animation of Jack the Bean stalk , Both animators used similar techniques to me as in terry Gilliam  would cut out different images from articles on the other hand Lotte might have drawn the images because it was for specific characters.

I think the technique we used to create the stop motion was really easy due to the fact we used the images from the newspapers and magazines on the other hand if the images were drawn it would have been a really hard process.In order to make your animation very smooth and look good you have to make little movements as u move the images around and that could also be a disadvantage to stop motion because it takes up to much time.   

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Motion studies

-Eadward Muybridge was a lecturer and photographer born in 1813, Hes was born in the borough of Kingston upon Thomes.He was Most famous for the invention of Motion Pictures.
He was asked by the mayor to help prove the theory of horses flying whilst they galloped. The way he did this was ,he set up around 24 cameras that all used glass plates and as the horse would go past each camera it would trigger the camera to take a picture, he then took each image from the camera and put it together forming a motion picture

We Made 2 motion pictures , 1 of someone falling over some casually walking , we did this by setting up 6 computers and having someone to take the picture as the object walked past them , we then put all of these images into one usb and went on a website which turns them into a GIF file.
Overall although we successfully completed creating the two motion pictures i personally think it would have been better if more computers were used because then we could have had more Frames Per Shot.  

zeotrope

A Zeotrope is one of the first ever equipment used to create animations. This is how the Zeotrope Works

You insert the zeotrope strip which has images that tells a story and that includes a series of frames...
Then you spin the zeotrope and stair through the lines made on them, because there are gaps between the line its almost like were blinking and a new frame comes up. Reasons why things work like that is because the Retina :which is based at the back of our eyes , remembers the last image and then we end up seeing the next frame.  

The advantages of a zeotrope is that it is really simple to use and it also animates on the other hand it has a circular narrative which limits the story.the Drum itself also limits amount of frames you can include in it..