Email to BBC David Starkey

Dear whom it may concern.

I am writing to complain about the comments made by David Starkey about his stereotypical views on the people who were involved in the riots last summer. Many people (myself included) believe that the comments he made blaming the riots on Black Gangster groups. Although i am not of that race myself i still took offence as i am sure many other people did, i feel that it is sending a message to people that we can be prejudice and single out people who are different to your race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
I am also unhappy about his reaction to the publics views on the comment he made, he said it was 'hysterical' i feel that David Starkey should be severely punished for the inappropriate comment he made and he should take it more seriously.

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Cut out animation

Cut Out Animation Evaluation

Cut out animation is when you use images from magazine's, newspapers or your own photo's and drawings  to create a story. You can cut the images in certain places which can make them look like they're talking and moving around.

Strengths of cut out animation are that it is very quick and simple to create a short stop motion film. Using a Tripod and a small web cam camera as it is very easy to handle and is very still so we don't have to keep adjusting it. The stop motion program on Apple Mac's makes it easier to take the still images of the cut outs accurately. Another strength is that it is a fun process as you can create all sorts of different stories and characters.

Weaknesses of cut out animation are that it's very limited in the movements you can use, you can't turn your character to walk away, you have to take your time to put cuts in the joints of the cut outs so they can move their arms etc. Also finding the images you're going to use takes a long time as does the process of filming the animation.

Cut Out Animation

Eadweard Muybridge.

Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston Upon Thames on the 9th of April 1830 and died on the 8th of May 1904. He moved to San Francisco in the US in the 1850's. Eadweard Muybridge shot his wife's lover and was tried and acquitted of murder. He is one of the most influential photographers of all time, because of this his freeze frames are in the National Museum of American History.
Things Muybridge is most famous for are him helping prove that when horses run at one point all four of there hooves are off the ground, he is also famous for changing and improving Motion Photography. The way he filmed was he used twenty-four individual and a trip wire which connected the cameras together so when the wire was tripped by something the cameras could take individual shots and capture each movement then after he would put all the pictures together which then would create a motion picture - thats how he helped prove the horse theory. He used frames per second (fps) which is the amount of pictures you need to make a motion.
We recreated this experiment in class we set up six different cameras and one person walked past and with each movement we captured it with a picture. And another one we did we did someone falling over - i think it could be improved by us making it less jumpy by using more frames per second.

Motion Photography

Zoetrope - Growing Flower.

A Zeoptrope is a device which gives off an illusion of movement from a fast rotation of still images. It's made of a cylinder with slits cuts vertically in the sides. On the inside of the cylinder there is a band of a number of still images just underneath the slits. When you spin the cylinder you look through the slits and the still images which are there on the inside will look like they are moving. The slits on the cylinder keep the images from looking blurred when spinning.

Strengths of the Zoetrope are that you can make your own images and use them which can be a very fun activity. Another strength is that people find Zeotrope the very interesting as you can draw any still image to make it look like its moving.

A weakness in the Zeotrope is that there is only one motion happening and it is limited in the amount of motion you can have on one strip of paper. Also people who might not be the best artists in the world could find making their own images annoying as they cant draw extravagant images.