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.