Claymation (Sue)

The Chase (Barington)

Channel Idents (Sue)

A channel ident is the strongest visual representation of a channel is a quick and easy way to let the audience know what channel they watching. An ident is a clear message showing exactly what the channel stands for. E4's ident is quite surreal and quirky, is does not have a voice over but the guy with a horse head sings. This is an excellent example of an ident as it is reinforces exactly what the channel is about as the ident may be humorous this allows the audience to be aware that E4 is known to show many comedies.

quick way to remind the viewer of the channel they are watching.  The voice over on the ident is used to remind the audience of the show that is currently on or what is coming on after, it may also tell people the evening schedule or what is showing on the platforms digital channels for example in BBC1's ident may announce what is showing on BBC3 or 4. An ident shows a clear message of what the channel stands for and is a way to allow the broadcaster to stay in an audiences top 5 channels. It is also a simple way to allow the channel to be recognized quickly and easily. 

An ident is used as the strongest visual representation of a channel. The voice over may come straight after a show has ended and the credits are rolling then go into the ident this is to keep hold of the audience so they stay watching their channel. In this voice over they may say when the next episode is, if you missed a episode how to catch up and what is coming on immediately after

They last 15-30 seconds and they usually have no talking or a voice over.

Idents are used to shows the channels brand and what the channels stands for, they allow the audience to know if they want to watch the channel

E4's ident is quite surreal and quirky, is does not have a voice over but the guy with a horse head sings. This is an excellent example of an ident as it is reinforces exactly what

t the channel is about and shows similarities between the shows that broadcast on E4. 

Pixillation(Sue)

Pixilation 
Pixilation Animation is when people are used to tell a story rather then paper, Clay, images etc. One shot per frame rate is used to make the person/people look as if they are really moving when in reality it is just a group of pictures put together. 
This type of animation has been around since the film akin began. The first film which used pixilation is El hotel eléctrico which was made in 1908. Nowadays its been seen in music videos. Film and TV Ads. 

Above is a short pixilation which my partner and i created to try out are skills and knowledge of pixilation animation. The story line is not very clear as we had to change our original idea as it was to much to do in so little time and as this was just a practice we thought it may be easier to come up with something random but creative. 

When creating it there was many advantages and disadvantages. Some of the disadvantages was it was definitely not easy to do as for each frame you could only move slightly for example when i was walking i could only move one foot each frame and keep my face expressions the same so that the audience would genuinely believe i was walking. other disadvantages was it takes a long time to do, you have to keep an extra close eye on continuity and the actors need a lot of patience. 

Some advantages is there is not a lot of equipment needed, you can be extra creative with the story and its fun. 

Cut out Animation (Sue)

Cutout animation is a technique that allows an animator to create a story using resources such as paper and magazines. They are arranged on a flat surface and repositioned to stimulate animation. Paper with drawings, photographs, Magazines. This type of animation is used to make photos of people, animals look as if they are talking and moving with a 2D/3D effect.

The British television comedy sketch, Monty Python’s flying circus was first aired on BBC in 1969 this is one of the first cut out animations to be shown on TV. South Park is another example of a cut out animation show.

Advantages of cut out animation is it requires fewer drawing then a normal animation the animator can use one drawing cut into pieces to represent different movements. The animator can design the cut out pieces themselves so its all based on their own imagination, it is easy and fun to do, the equipment is easy to access. A disadvantage is it can be difficult to create a fluid smooth movement towards the camera using 2D shapes. It takes a very long time to do and mistakes may take a while to fix. Its also difficult to synchronize the recorded sounds with the movement of the characters.

For the cut out animation i created with my group we used pictures from a magazine, we did not have a clear idea of the storyline as the pictures we found was very random and different. This is because the pictures in the magazine did not add up so as a group we decided to cut out pictures and then create a story from the pictures we had.

I Enjoyed learning and creating this type of animation as its very different from what we see on modern TV and film. Creating it was interesting and allowed me to explore my imagination in a different way as we could make characters that do not match the normal looks or characteristics of an average person, for example we created a pregnant man.