This video caught my attention the other day. We had been talking about slow mediums in class (like painting, writing letters, and whatnot). This sort of combines two mediums. One that is very fast - video, and one that is relatively slow - polaroid photos. Not to mention all the hard work and time that went into this... and all the film x_x!
So I've been checking out some stop animation videos on YouTube and I've been noticing a pattern - old video games. I never really realized it before but older video games ARE stop animation. Especially in the first video (below). Anyways I decided to search for stop animation because one of my favorite movies was made that way - The Nightmare Before Christmas. The style isn't realistic... it's not technologically advanced... but it's really cool! In some ways I think people tend have more respect for these types of movies because you can see how much work they put into it. With most other movies everything flows so smoothly you can't tell where work has been done. With stop animation you can see the movement and I think people figure that it must take at least 3 -4 times as much time to make a stop animation than a video. Stop animation is pictures... lots and lots of pictures... but you have to take them individually with much time in between. Video is also lots and lots of pictures... but they're taken so fast you can't tell the difference from one to another. Funny how the speed can change the effect and style so much.
First thing that came to mind when we started talking about art and youtube and videos and whatnot is something I believe that was mentioned in class. Mixing old with new. Like setting an old old movie to modern music, or vice versa. Immediately the first thing that popped into my head was this commercial. A tide commercial with Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" playing in the background.
The song reminds me of cartoons and Christmas, and I never really associated it with anything besides Charlie Brown. I also associated it with being older. So when they put the music to this new Tide commercial I was taken aback. Not to mention the kid in the commercial is incredibly cute... It was interesting and it definitely caught my attention.
Interesting how that works. It did to me exactly what the makers wanted it to.
