We the Kings is an American rock band from Bradenton, Florida. Their self-titled full-length debut album, released in 2007, included the platinum single "Check Yes Juliet", and went on to sell over 250,000 copies in the US.
Thursday 12 February 2015
About the band...
We the Kings is an American rock band from Bradenton, Florida. Their self-titled full-length debut album, released in 2007, included the platinum single "Check Yes Juliet", and went on to sell over 250,000 copies in the US.
Creating the Cut Outs!
Today Amy and I created the cutouts for our Animation...
Here are a few pictures...
Friday 6 February 2015
Similar Examples...
A similar animation and one that we have been highly inspired by for our own animation is a music video by Oren Lavie, "Her Morning Elegance".
This is a great animation in which two people move around the bed as if to walk and dance in an effective manner.
Oren Lavie (born 1976) is an Israeli singer, songwriter, playwright, and theatre director. His music video for "Her Morning Elegance" earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for "Best Short Form Music Video".
The song’s a bit slow—a bit Iron & Wine’ish, if you will, so be prepared to be all melancholy afterwards. The video itself, though, is dripping with creativity — over 2,100 single photos were taken in order to put this thing together. And it’s so well done that there are times myself where I completely forgot that these two were lying there — horizontal — on a bed.
Thursday 5 February 2015
The Song...and the Lyrics
The Idea!
For this project I am working with my friend, Amy Young.
Our idea is to create a video for the song Queen of Hearts by the American boy band We The Kings. It's quite a romantic, 'lovey dovey' song, so we aim to play on the lyrics and create a stereotypical video with a couple.
We have 2 actors planned to film for us and will be filming with a Sony A1 connected to the lights in the TV Studio. We need a lot of height in order to film as our actors will be laid out on the floor, moving to each frame that we film.
Effectively, this is how we will film our 90 second stop motion animation ----> VIEW HERE!
This music video by Oren Lavie, "Her Moving Elegance" shows just how much fun stop motion animation can be.
There are roughly 3,225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera hanging from the ceiling.
It took them 4 weeks to create an animated story board and only 2 days of shooting for the live actors to recreate the animation.
We have cut out all the necessary cut out props that we need and the equipment is booked, all ready to film. We will remove a black curtain to lay on the ground and mount a camera from the bars in the ceiling in our TV Studio.
Our idea is to create a video for the song Queen of Hearts by the American boy band We The Kings. It's quite a romantic, 'lovey dovey' song, so we aim to play on the lyrics and create a stereotypical video with a couple.
We have 2 actors planned to film for us and will be filming with a Sony A1 connected to the lights in the TV Studio. We need a lot of height in order to film as our actors will be laid out on the floor, moving to each frame that we film.
Effectively, this is how we will film our 90 second stop motion animation ----> VIEW HERE!
This music video by Oren Lavie, "Her Moving Elegance" shows just how much fun stop motion animation can be.
There are roughly 3,225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera hanging from the ceiling.
It took them 4 weeks to create an animated story board and only 2 days of shooting for the live actors to recreate the animation.
We have cut out all the necessary cut out props that we need and the equipment is booked, all ready to film. We will remove a black curtain to lay on the ground and mount a camera from the bars in the ceiling in our TV Studio.
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