As Jack and I are attempting stop motion within our music promo we decided to reseach into artists that have successfully achieved this in their promos. The first artists that we redearched into was 'Kate Nash'. She has many videos where stop motion has been added but her promo 'Foundations' is something that influenced us due to the mise-en-scene that she has used. It's set in a typical setting of a house containing shots of the bedroom, living room and kitchen - this is something Jack and I are hoping to shoot within our promo. This is because this setting would fit within the lyrics and something that would work effectively with the song.
This is the promo for 'Foundations' by Kate Nash; when watching this music promo you can see how stop motion has been used effectively and works well with the beat of the song.
Examples of stop motion used in her music video;
Some more examples;
As you can see from the examples above, the objects that have been used for stop motion are everyday objects for example, watches, toothbrushes etc. For our music promo we are attempting to use a clock on a wall to change the speed of time while the character is staying still - something that if worked well will be effective.
OK Go - End Love
The second artist that Jack and I researched into was 'OK Go' as we got this recommended for their successful stop motio within their song 'End Love'. This song also influenced us due to the fast editing techniques between each shot - this is something Jack and I are hoping to achieve when editing as the style of the song fits within this editing - fast, quick shot changes.
This is the promo for 'End Love' by OK Go; when watching this music promo you can see how quick the editing is and hoe effective stop motion is used to the beat of the song.
Examples of stop motion used their music video;
As you can see from the examples above they have used the technique of one character staying at one position while the other characters changed behind him. This is something Jack and I are attempting to do within our music promo for example, the chacter is going to sit in bed singing the song while he's clothes change - an example of stop motion. If worked well this would be an effective part of our music promo
The third artist Jack and I researched into was 'Charlotte Church' as this was recommended to us by the stop motion used. The song is called Moodswings (To Come At Me Like That) and includes the actor (Charlotte Church) changing outfits several times throughout the promo. As me and Jack were worried about our stop motion and if it would fit together successfully we looked at her promo to see how successful her editng was towards her stop motion.
This is the promo for Moodswings (To Come At Me Like That) by Charlotte Church.
When watching this promo you can see that when stop motion is in place certain aspects of her body move for example, her hair, arms legs etc. Stop motion is hard to get perfect as you have to be in the exact same place for each shot. From this you ca see that her hair, arms and leg moves slightly out of place for each different shot. This doesn't effect her stop motion as it has still worked effectively but once you really look at the editing you can see what's slightly moved.
With this in mind, I am not worried anymore about how our stop motion turnes of. When we did a try out of stop motion we could see it didn't work effectively but if we try ro get it as perfect as possible on the actual day of the shoot we'd be fine. We don't want it to be so out of place that it's really noticeable as this would create a negative towards our video, but if it jump cuts slightly we can always smooth out the clip so it still looks effective.
Here is an example of stop motion used in her video and if you look closely you can see her leg move slightly out of place in each shot.
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