Research into Stop Motion Animation

There are a lot of short films posted on the internet, and some of them are stop motion pictures.

It takes a long time to actually produce these kind of films and I think that is why a lot of stop motion animation films are short films. Movies such as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took 5 years to make as it takes so long to complete.

Whilst browsing the internet, I came across some really well done stop motion shorts.

This one is only 40 seconds long, but I thought it was a really good, original idea.


POST-IT-UP from Amir Porat on Vimeo.

One of my favourite stop motion videos that I came across is this one below.
(To see it full screen, right click and select "full screen"). 
I really like how simple the idea is, just using an everyday household item like a post-it note and creating it into a video that is extremely enjoyable to watch.


Another video that I came across of an animation centred around a seemingly boring abject, but again was really good. However, this is also only about 40 seconds long, whereas my production has to be about 4 minutes long. The video is below.


Bumble Bee boy from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

Another video by the same creator that uses toys is shown below again. 



Iron Man vs Bruce Lee from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.


If I were to do a stop motion for my final production, I'd like to incorporate everyday items rather than create plasticine models. I would need to come up with some sort of storyline that could last me about 4 minutes, and many of the ones I watched during my research were very short. Whilst they are very entertaining, they are simply not long enough for this project in particular. 


I feel that the length of my film would provide a problem if I were to do a stop motion animation that was good enough to grab the audience and keep them interested throughout.