On June 21st, I attended an animation workshop run by Mark Charlton. Mark taught us all about animation, what it is and how to do it. In early 2004, Mark created Blue Star Animations, a small animating company and has done many music videos for artists to use. One of his best was the video 'Golden Thread' by Passenger. The way he did this was he layered tracing paper and drew the designs over and over to make it look like it was moving.

Mark taught us how to do Stop Motion animation. We worked on mini projects to learn how to use this animation. The different types of Stop Motion we tried were:

1. Pixilation
2. Cut out animation

3. 3D animation.

For our big project to use these animation types, we had to create our own music video to a song of our choice. My group chose the Beastie Boys song Intergalactic because the opening had a good beat for the idea we had. Our video we created, we used Stop Motion 2D animation to create the effect of a graphic equaliser, which matched with the upbeat tune of the song.

After the workshop, it has opened my eyes to the world of animation and how it works. It could possibly be a factor I would use in my own music video.