(Task 1) Research

Contemporary genres and forms of animation 

      There are different forms of animation including:

Idents 
Idents aka TV Identification, is a short visual video that's lasts for about 10 to 30 seconds. The purpose of the TV identification is to make the channel stand out from other channels and to also inform audiences. The main aim is to encourage the audience to connect and enjoy the programmes shown on the channel, probably making them to want to watch them. Most times the viewers use the ident to link a programme to a channel. 

                                                          

This ident suggest that the channel is targeted towards people from 15 to 30, who would enjoy the programmes that will be shown on the channel. The advert was created by Noah Harris who has used a British environment which is a beach hut, in the idents there are a lot of odd things going on like the teddies fishing on sand, the TV  in the hut backing the couch instead of the other way round etc. And also all the elements that have been used have the same colour pattern as the E4 logo. 

Pioneers 

Auguste & Louis Lumiere 

The Lumiere brothers were the one of the first filmmakers in history. The brothers Auguste and Louise Lumiere were cinematographers whose work mainly consisted mainly of moving images from one scene to another.By early 1895, the brothers had invented their own device combining camera with printer and projector and called it cinematographe. In addition to being lighter and cheaper to operate than the Kinetoscope, the Lumieres cinematograph could project at an unprecedented speed of 12 frames per second.In 1895 the brothers created the film which is0 considered to be the first motion picture, La Sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumiere. (Workers leaving the Lumiere factory. At the end of the year in 1895 the brothers created a single camera used both for photographing and projecting at 16 frames per second and by the year 1896 the brothers had made over 40 films which was mainly the recording of everyday life, for example a game of cards, the feeding of a baby, a tolling of a blacksmith etc.  

Joseph Plateau


Joseph Plateau was a Belgian Physicist who first created the illusion of moving image. He was a stop motion animator and the inventor of the Phenakistoscope. The phenakistoscope created this illusion using counter-rotating discs and repeated drawing on one disc while each image changed slightly while the other disc created the illusion of movement by rotating in an opposite direction at the same speed.   

Contemporary Animators

Tim Burton is an American film producer and animator known for his gothic and fantasy films. As a young teenager, Tim would make short films in his house using stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8mm film without any sound. One of his animation film is the nightmare before christmas. The filmmakers had to construct about 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie and with the main character, Jack Skellington having different expressions at every point in time they had to make about 400 hundred heads with different expressions.