First Lesson

In today's lesson we discussed various music videos that we can use to draw our inspiration from, including this video for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer:


The whole thing is made out of stop frame animation, a technique that is very time consuming, as it involves putting together lots of photographs and playing them really quickly together so that the effect is more jerky than using film cameras, and seems to go well with the song. This is also a technique that we could use to create our music videos.

We then discussed how artists today are influenced by music videos from decades past, for example the video for Lady Gaga's Born This Way has lots of elements that hark back to the 1980's