Starting Research

BRAINSTORMING:

So to create a moving image my main three choices are cinematography/film, Machinima(3D) and Animation.

For Cinematography I looked http://www.thesmalls.com

"The Smalls is an online showcase for non-commercial creative work. We are here to inspire and to offer a medium where emerging talent can display work not only to fellow members of the contemporary creative community, but also to our subscription members in the broadcast, film and advertising industry."

There was some amazing short films on there, but unfortunately I don't have a camera to be able to anything like that.

For Machinima and 3D I looked at http://www.mprem.com/e107/news.php.

It is a website to promote the making of machinima movies and has lots movies and tips on there, but 3D is a weak point for me so I have decided not to do machinima either.

ANIMATION

So it looks like I will be using animation to create my 3 minute moving image.

I started looking at the work of Michel Gondry first because I loved the stop motion work he did on The White Stripes music video for "Fell In Love With a Girl".

Michel is a French film, commerical and music video director.

In the video below it explains how in half of the video he used stop frame animation using lego blocks to build versions of the two musicians and then for the other half of the video he used video footage of the two musicians and turned that into pixelated art and made that into lego blocks of the two musicians.