Looking At stop motion

From looking around i found a good example of a stop motion video on youtube,
and a making of it to go with. The video is of an xbox 360 advert where i beleive the stop motion works really well as it adda a lot of character too it.

Xbox 360 Advert



The Making of the xbox advert

wednesday 22nd April [How to?]

Today we had our first lecture from Nigel on "hot and cold media" and then he showed us a video "podcast" by "Bill Verplank" which did an interaction of a map of "how do you do? how do you feel? and how do you know?"

Tuesday 21st April

For the morning on this day we had a look at how music video's had used stop motion and how we could intemperate this into our own work for our starting points.
There were quite a few that a gained quite some influence from such as the white stripes music video...



Another one i found which i found to be really good was "Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie"


I like this just because of the illusion and effect it gives off, and i would like to try to do something similar to this.

Then in the afternoon we went out with camera's to try and create our very own stop motion video. Our first attempt turned out alright but seemed to be over too fast but then we went out again and our second attempt was a lot better and seemed a lot longer, however it was rather jumpy as we were leaving to big gaps in between each frame so this is something to improve upon.


Table Slide Video



Bench Video



Crowd Video

Monday 20th April

Today we started our new brief which is called "rich media" which is a term to define singularly or in a combination of a range of technologies within a context or environment.

In this project we are going too develop our own experimental approach to new and emergent media, explore communication strategies and learn about the application of new emergent technologies.

To start with we have been given a starting point too create a series of photographs or video response to one of the following...
tree - shape
hair - suite
flow - course
coat - Finnish

From here we worked in pairs to think of what these words mean and looking at there synonyms,
such as for flow i got..
* To move along in a stream
* To circulate : Blood flowing through veins

Synonyms - flow, gush, spout, spurt

and for course i got..
*A direction or route taken

Then in the afternoon we went out with video camera's to get our self familiar with them, playing with the focus and seeing what works.