Stop motion

Stop Motion is the animation style in which the directors physically manipulate the character to make them move on their own.
For this the directors take a photo frame by frame, where they move the characters slightly.
Then when the film is run the characters look like they're moving on their own.
Examples of Stop Motion:
Wallace and Gromit directed by Nick Park is a very good example of stop motion The whole film is made of  clay and took a long while to make. About 15 months  to make there film length film "Wallace and Gromit and the curse of the ware rabbit"
To makes there characters look as smooth as the do, the maker really plan every single movement in the film. They use a detailed story board and chose very  precise movements.  The characters and backgrounds have different designs to make the final finish, however with some parts of Wallace and Gromit such as smoke, explosion in the film had to be rendered  on a computer after the film is made.
This is a trailer for the film

Wallace and Gromit and the curse of the ware rabbit.
This film is combined effect of Dreamworks and Aardman studios. Made in 2005, it's the second of Aardmans stop motion film after Chicken Run.

Aardman studios
Aardman is a british film company in Bristol, which specializes in Stop Motion animation using Clay. The company has produced two major just Stop motion produces. The first was Chicken Run (2000) was the first of this studios films. Chicken Run reserved many awards for it's fast comedic style and it's detailed stop motion. The second film was Wallace and Gromit the curse of the ware rabbit, which had a high grossing rating and a high number of awards.
In 2006 Aardman released it's first computer Animated film "Flushed Away" and used this technique
 in there other films.


Other films have also used an element of Stop motion.
The film Coraline (Henry Slick) and many others by Tim Burton uses the element of Stop Motion in there work. Coraline most famously is the combining effort of Stop Motion and  CG1 techniques. The Stop Motion element makes the character move slowly and the clay effect makes the film combined with the dark elements of most of these films, give the idea of something strange or grotesque giving the idea of horror.

                                          The main character in Corline who was made as a puppet
                                           by many different designers.
                                         

Stop Motion in Media Studies lesson
In our lesson we looked the idea of Stop Motion. To do this, in a group we used Play Dough Models and a Canon Camera COMS.
With these objects we moved the models into different shapes with our hands. Then deciding a perfect position for the character we took photos, to show to give the idea that the character was moving.
Our characters
For our Stop Motion me and my group decided to make our stop motion about Death Harvesting a soul.
To do this we created our two simple characters
Our characters, made out of different coloured clay.

To do this Stop Motion style, me and my group took a lot of photographs to make frames. The finished film was only 40 seconds long, but it gave a good example of what Stop Motion Technique looked like.

The finished product looked very good and the character did look full of there own movement. It was a smoothly ran finish.
The process itself was very interesting, Stop Motion gain an impression of an "Uncanny Valley" which made it look creepy. The stories we could make were very accessible. As the play dough could let us make anything. However I would avoid using Stop Motion for my opening as the process took a long time to finish, even for a 40 second film, I think the process would be too restricted and take up to much time.  

Pro/Cons of stop motion:
Pros:
Stop Motion is very interesting
Stop motion can make a film look very creepy
Can look very creative
Humor can be used within stop motion

Cons:
Takes a long time to
A lot of people to make that work
Can look faulty and weird is not done write