Cut out animation.

Terry Gilliam & Lotte Reiniger were two main pioneers when it comes to cut out animation.
Terry is an American born British and Lotte is German. both been fascinated from young with cut outs.
There are many cut out shows. South park was originally a cut out.
Cut-out animation is a process where by moveable parts of the figure are moved to create an illusion of an action. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations.

Here are some cut outs. 

Cut-Out Animation from gunslingers19 on Vimeo.

Cut-Out Animation from Adrian Navarro on Vimeo.

Gumbasia.

Gumbasia is a a 3 minute 10 second short film produced in 1953 and released on September 2, 1955. It was the first cut out animation produced by Mr Clokey followed by many others. It was a parody of Disney's Fantasia, using stop-motion clay figures. Gumbasia led to funding for his first 'Gumby' film.
There would have been a lot of stop motion frames for this, it must have taken a long time and a lot of patience. I like the idea of something that looks like it’s happening merely being false and not happening at all. In this case, it’s the clay appearing likes it’s moving, when really it isn’t and the old school effects are awesome !

Music video.

MUSIC VIDEOS.

Music videos help to keep the artist or band in the public eye for a few months after the release of their album/single leaving them in the public eye for as long as possible depending on the viewers view.
The purpose of the music video is to also sell the song visually, to give the audience a better understanding of the song (IF music video is narrative) and it's also a promotional tool. There are also three different types of music videos: performance, narrative and concept based. There are music videos that show the artist/band doing a live performance, a narrative one tells a story and a concept based music video


Our main task was to create our own music video. So my group and I first though of visuals. I picked out videos like ADHD by Kendrick Lamar (00:54-1:07, 1:36-1:48) and Urban Outfitters by Vinny Cha$e (the intro) to help us out with our music video seeing as we wanted it to come out looking like an actual professional video and I listen to both of them artists regularly so I picked out the bits that I liked the most and wrote it all down so the members in my team could view it and decide. We then had a hard time thinking of songs. But we eventually managed to pick one that ended up to be the best. Our group started with 4 members, Conor, Georgina, Jordan and Myself and ended with Conor, Georgina & I because of some problem happening outside of our group (nothing to do with any of us) so a group had to be fixed. It was a concept based music video. It was mainly about having fun, it wasn't narrative as much but if you do listen to the lyrics it does say "I'm the liquorice b*tch" whereas everyone knows liquorices are black.. and in the video there are two black girls. So that makes some sense. We all added some ideas into the finished product so it wasn't just one persons idea. Teamwork was great. Location was picked by randomly, we ended up in Oxford Circus and it was rather busy so I took my group down to Soho. A quiet area filled with strange people who haven't gone home since the night before but that's cool, we didn't cause/get into trouble that day! We filmed and made a few interesting conversations with some drunkards, even got to film a pair having a go at each other.
I hope we get some good feedback ! :)


- Oyinkan Adeshoye.

Live performance.

Narrative

Concept based.

Visual inspiration 

Music videos on Prezi

Jobs. [Andy Cowen]

Photo Imaging.
Fashion and textiles.
Computer games/film.

- Photo imaging news, events.
- Apparel - Make clothes/stylist.
- Animation/cartoons - TV.

Comparing 2 Idents

My reason for choosing the BBC Two ident was not mainly because it was my own but because it had a history behind it; Flash Gordon & the Zoetrope.

• Futuristic (Out of this world entertainment)
• A mixture to the past and future.

The BBC 2 advert is for all orientations but mainly male dominated whereas the Flash gordon one was mainly for olders or young adults who were educated about the zoetrope and such or were just fascinated! 

Film noir + script.

LES MORTS.

                                                                                                 by

                                                                                           Oyinkan Adeshoye.

{OK, before I get a lot of criticism for this being awkwardly shit.. It's okay. This is just a draft. Criticize away!

FADE IN: into The bar, Conor, Georgina, Jordan & Friends sitting down, drinking, smoking and talking.

Music gets played.

[Newspaper girl (Oyinkan) walks into the bar] : free newspaper! anybody like some or should I just leave right now?

- gestures from the group ordering newspaper girl to bring the newspaper.

"So I've heard that there's some serious crime going on in this little town.. it scares me. Some human being is going round and-

Conor: -Just give us the papers. *clenches jaw*

[Georgina, Jordan eye each other awkwardly]

- newspaper girl leaves.

- CONOR, GEORGINA, JORDAN READ NEWSPAPER-

C: Wow, so finally something is going on in our little city.

G: I know, rather shocking I must say.

J: *nods head*

C: Um, *looks at watch* well guys, I've got to start heading. Have to meet some business partners.

G: business partners? At 10:30pm? *strange look*

C: What's with the face? Business partners don't have closing times on when they shouldn't talk about business. business is always in my head! Got to start heading *takes the last sip of his glass, taps Jordan* see you guys tomorrow! -walks off and out of the bar-

G: guess i better start going too.. It's getting late and I've got an early start tomorrow.

J: Alright, I'm gonna stay for a few, grab a few numbers off these girls & then I'm gonna leave. Get home safely!

G: -puts jacket on & starts to leave- Will do! You too!

- shot of Conor meeting up with friends by the river. Covering his face & looking around, also carrying a bag with him.

-shot of Gina walking home, strangely enough taking a different route from the usual.

-music playing in the background-

|This script is fairly different from the actual film noir itself, but it still has the same storyline to it, please bear in mind|

FILM NOIR from Conor Thomson on Vimeo.

Self evaluation

Oyinkan Adeshoye

I think with this channel ident I didn't manage my time very well but it was acceptable.
I managed my time effectiveley with the story boards, mind maps but I didn't manage myself effectively with the actual animation.
There have been times when crew members didn't attend classes which limited some time towards the animation. But I'd rate them a 3 mainly because whenever we are together we get on with our works ASAP and hardly waste time.
I fulfilled my role perfectley if I must say so myself. I did the mind maps, storyboards all on time. I'd give myself a rating of 5.
The animation answered the creative brief mainly because it's colourful with colours of the college which explains the ident and its purpose towards it.
The target audience for this ident is mainly for students, visitors, prospective students and teachers. To improve this ident it could have actually been recorded instead of it being multiple images one after the other. The original idents theme was "College of Balloons" including the logo colours. The idea and story behind it was to have the colours of the college logo on balloons floating around college whilst we take you on a tour around.


What aspects of the brieft did you manage to fulfill?
I managed to actually create a channel ident and put it all in one piece, I managed to do the mind maps and storyboards.
What areas of the project didn't work well? In future what you differently?
The areas that didn't work well was the actual production. We didn't manage to do what we intended on doing in time so we had to do a quick ident. Lack of time messed us up.
What areas of the project are you most proud of?
I'm proud of the storyboards, mind maps. Mainly because they are well detailed.
If I could change anything it would be the actual ident and to use the original idea of the 'College of balloons' idea, showing the colours of the college logo and a quick tour around the college.