Frankie Boyle is a stand up comedian. He makes several jokes about people, everyone finds him very funny, interesting and loves watching him. Frankie is always testing his boundaries, he likes to experiment with his style by performing his best in his stand up comedy shows.
Boyle made a joke about Harvey Price where he said 'I have a feeling that Jordan married a cage fighter because she needed someone strong enough to stop Harvey from fucking her'.
This comment received negative attention from viewers, some of whom complained to Ofcom. The regulator has been critical of Boyle's material but has taken into account the way in which Katie Price has exposed her children to the media.
It has come to my attention that his joke may not of been appropriate for his audience which we have had several complaints and also received one from Jordan price; mother of Harvey prince referring to Harvey and his disability. The Reason why I am righting this is to apologise on Boyle's behalf for any offence caused but he is also allowed to say what he wants to say because he is entitled to freedom of speech.
I am writing to you to complain about a man called David Starkey, I saw him on one of your shows where he uses stereotypes, is rude and very racist. I was very offended by the way he spoke. I thought he was very aggressive and also very racist to black people in the UK.
Starkey made comments saying 'the whites have become blacks'. He means that black culture has influenced people, for example what happened in the London riots. White youths in general have become violent, destructive and 'gangster culture' is the new fashion." Your general audience could and did find it offensive. Politicians and the head of the Labour party have said that it is "racist".
The law has been broken; in the Race Relations Act (2000), all forms of racism, direct or indirect, physical or verbal abuse towards other races is against the law.
In addition to this, Starkey's behaviour goes against your own editorial guidelines, specifically the one dealing with harm and offence. To quote Editorial Guideline 1.2.5 on Harm and Offence:
We aim to reflect the world as it is, including all aspects of the human experience and the realities of the natural world. But we balance our right to broadcast innovative and challenging content with our responsibility to protect the vulnerable from harm and avoid unjustifiable offence. We will be sensitive to, and keep in touch with, generally accepted standards as well as our audiences' expectations of our content, particularly in relation to the protection of children.
David Starkey is a rude, aggressive and racist man, who uses stereotypes. Maybe the reason why his opinions are like this is because they are based on his old fashioned beliefs. He goes from one vile statement to another.
Most of the public think he's rude,aggressive, uses stereotypes and a racist man , Politicians think he is the same, and so do I. So I'm making a stand because I think he should be banned.
Thank you for your time, please do something about this man!
Gumbasia animation is a 10 second to 3 minutes of a short film produced in 1953 and released on September 2 1955. Art Clokey produced the first clay animation, he made Gumbasia out of clay. Its doesn't have a narrative and it looks quite abstract, he uses bright colours and lots of different shapes. All the shapes merge into another shape, the back ground is funky and also adds to the abstract feeling of the footage.
Sue set an assignment for me to complete, I had to work in a group of four so I worked with Alessandra, Raymond and Geoffrey. We had to make a short video by using Gumbasia animation and we had to make it out of clay. We messed about with the clay for a bit to get a rough idea so we could make our short video, we decided to make shapes and roll it about for a bit, then once we sorted out what we were roughly going to do we used the same shape to turn them into monsters. We then added some Gumbasia music to the footage so it could be more effective and interesting while everyone is watching it. I think everything went well I really enjoyed making our video. The thing that didn't go so well was when we were making it I didn't understand what we were making, how we were making it, so then I had to do some research so I could help the group out and make a good video. If we was to do this assignment again I think next time we should plan it more and try and not waste time because our time was limited.
Aardman started to make short films by using clay animation. He is also known as Aardman studios, because he was always in the studio called British studio. Aardman is known for clay animation and stop - motion for example Morph, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Flash Away, Shaun the Sheep etc.
Morph is a children's character made out of orange clay, he was created by Aardman specifically for deaf children as there is no speech, however he become much more popular with the general public in the programme Take Hart.
I think the strengths of clay animation is that it's easy to make, easy to animate, quick to make it once its heated up, easy to move about and if you need to change something you can do it there and then. Also when you make clay animations the films are supposed to be short.
I think that there are lots of limitations of using clay animation because every time I tried to move my character my hand kept getting in the way of the shots. It was hard for the clay to stay in one place, for example when I made my character start climbing up the rocks he kept falling off and breaking his arms or legs. Using clay animation isn't realistic as once I started to mess about with the clay to make my characters the clay wasn't strong enough. For example, when my super morph came to save the little boy I had to use string so I could make him fly but because the clay was too heavy and wasn't as strong as before it kept on breaking, so I had to try and put it back together and start from the previous. My animation was 30 seconds long, but it took me hours to complete this task, that's the only thing about using clay, but once I finished filming my shots the editing was finished within 15 minutes.
Right now I'm going to compare clay animation and cut out animation. Cut out animation is when you use all different types of magazines, news papers, pictures, text. It's simple all you have to do is cut out what you like then try and make a story line of your cut out. You have to go on to a software called IStopMotion and you have to move the pictures slowly and take a picture so once you have finished then play it back to you, you will have a moving footage of what you just did.
In my own opinion I don't think that there is a big difference in using clay animation or cut out animation because you are doing the same thing but one is with clay and the other one is with paper. If I had to this assignment again I wouldn't know which one to pick because either way they both have their limitations. The similarities of using clay animation and cut out animation is the fact that you have to come up with a storyline then you have to move your image slightly every time to take a picture. So once your footage has all be captured it is a final moving image, then you have to edit your video by putting effects, sound effects, credits ect.
Both of my assignments went well, I really enjoyed making both of my videos out of clay and cut out. I don't think that anything went wrong. I wouldn't change anything if I had to do this assignment again I would just make it more professional, because I have got the experience to know how to do it, what to do and how to use the software, so I will set it up better and make it look more sleek.
I've gained great experience to do lots of different animation for example I've done clay animation, cut out animation, zoetrope animation and Eadward Muybridge. I don't have a certain animation that I really enjoyed because I enjoyed all of them, but if I had to pick out of the four animations I think I would want to do the clay animation again.
