Some background on stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique that creates an illusion of an inanimate object moving. The technique is done by moving the object minimally and taking a photograph. Many more photographs are then taken and then put into a sequence giving the illusion of movement. Objects that are usually involved are clay figures and dolls with joints however practically anything can be put into stop motion.

Stop motion dates back to as far as 1897 where it was used for Albert E. Smith's and J. Stuart Blackton's "The Humpty Dumpty Circus" where toy acrobats and animals come to life. This was probably the first use of stop animation. The technique was then later on used by Georges Méliés who used it for an opening sequence for one of his short films.

One of the earliest use of clay stop motion was "Modelling Extraordinary" which gave a lot more life onto the technique as it wowed the audience in 1912.

For our music video we have many ideas, one of them is to mix live action and stop motion together to give it more variety and a unique feel to it. We have also been discussing how many frame rates it will have, it will around 10+ or maybe less. The choppy feel from the stop motion will add to the abstract feel of the music video.