Listening to Bonobo’s tracks I realised many of them have a very disjointed feel to them. Mr Buckmaster suggested incorporating stop frame animation to illustrate this. Using this imagery will mirror the sound/feel of the music.
Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
Please look at Peter Gabriel’s video, Sledgehammer (below). This is a great example of stock frame animation. It’s very fragmented which I would love to use if I do one of Bonobo’s tracks (see previous post). The animation combined with the stop-motion shots makes the video seem comical and helps visualise the lyrics in the song also. Because it is very surreal and slightly bonkers the video stands out the video picked up an MTV music video award back in 1987! Using stop frame animation gave Gabriel freedom of his mind and lyrics which noraml freedom may have not been able to create.
Animation in bed
On YouTube I also found a stop frame animation of someone in bed. Using stop frame animation a story is portrayed although she never moves from her bed. It again is fragmented but fits in with the dreamlike setting of the bed and makes the video very surreal.
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