Music Video Deconstruction (Stop-Motion Animation):

Peter Gabriel- Sledghammer:

Linking stop-motion animation techniques with music videos, this funk-rock clip by 'Peter Gabriel' demonstrates this perfectly (and is seriously cool!!). It is quite an old technique that can be used with many different approaches for example using photographs, drawings, people, and even puppets/models. That is why i really love this music video, and think it is so creative and unique, as the director has chosen to apply the stop-motion animation technique to people, fruit and paper airplanes..just to name a few. This music video also includes a vast range of different camera shots and movements to convey a particular meaning. For instance, the opening has a series of extreme close-up shots, this highlighting the human senses like the nose, eyes, ears and mouth. From this, it could possibly be a message from the director, Stephen R Johnson, that they are demanding for the audience to 'open up their senses' and enjoy the music.
Fascinated with how this amazing video was created, I did some research into it. Finding that Gabriel  lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while they were filming the video one frame at a time. An overall unrelated and random sequence of clips within this production, however it is still very entertaining to watch. For example, when two oven-ready chickens, headless and featherless, were animated using stop-motion and shown dancing along to the synthesized flute solo in the middle of the song.
Overall though, i feel this is an ideal example of a video that successfully uses the technique of stop-motion animation and i would very much like to include something similar in my music video, possibly to introduce and conclude the song.