Stop Motion Animation - Essay - Due 12th March

Stop Motion Animation - Essay 800-1000 (analysis) Words

• Choose a stop motion animation of your choice
• Watch the animation
• Use screen shots to illustrate your points

Structure and questions to support your essay

Introduction: (10%)
State the animation, what will you look at?, director, success (box office) and technique used - reference sources correctly

Main body: 80% 
The questions below are for guidance, pick and choose what is relevant to the flow of your essay. 

• Is the animation effective?
• Who is the target audience? identify this - support your work with examples from the animation. 
• Does it look appealing?
• Is the animation fluid?
• Do any of the frames jump? 
• Do the characters move realistically? 
• Are the characters static? 
• What have they used for backgrounds? 
• Is the animation technique complex or simple? 
• What effect does this have on the audience? 
• Are there a variety of camera shots/ angles/ movement used in the animation? 
• What could this tell us about the animation technique? 
• How has sound/music been used?

Conclusion (10%)

• Do not introduce and NEW material here.
• Summarise your ideas/argument (you might also have done this in your introduction)
• Restate what you consider to be the main points

Reference List

Use the Harvard referencing system to list all the books, articles, materials you have referred to in your essay.

• Author (date) title. Town; publisher
• Page numbers
• In alphabetical order by author's surname