Week 7 -(19/03/10) - Reasearch for project

I decided to do research to help me with ideas for our stop motion. Following the ideas I had for our film I searched for ways of showing these ideas in a sequence. So Firstly i looked at existing examples of stop motions on youtube.

• This video was helpful as it has the same sort of tone that we want with our film, it follows the same theme of seperation and love. It also made me realise that black and white will give a stronger message and suit the mood more appropriately. Also other parts that look effective is that the male has his hood up, so I might incorporate that into the cemetary scene.

Credit to aurora801

• On Youtube I also typed in the key words "paper stop motion" to help me with ideas on how to do the scene where the girlfriend rips up the photo, to make the sequence effective. This is one of the videos that were helpful as it shows small pieces of paper scattered around. From this video i realised it is more effective when the pieces are moved only slightly each time and that in general ripped up pieces of paper work well with stop motion.

Credit to wardadam1

As well as these videos i also viewed numerous tutorial videos on how to do stop motions/ photo montages and learnt a number of rules and pointers on producing a stop motion sequence.

We already have a song that is going to accompany the images (Katy Rose -Lemon) but I felt that something else would be good to emphasise the meaning of the sequence. So at the end I thought a quote that matches the theme of lost love/ broken relationships would be suitable to clarify what happened in the sequence.

After finding numerous quotes that were relevant here is the one I have chosen...

“Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.” - Unknown

This quote is suitable as it mentions both love and death, as well as the idea that death can not seperate love, which relates to the hand in heart shape sequences as well as their memories sequence.

For the hand in the shape of a heart sequence i got the idea and inspiration from the musical artist Taylor Swift as she often makes this shape to represent love. -As shown below -