Looking into commercial entertainment, stop motion techniques such as a cutout animation and the use of construction paper, computer animation were and still are used within the america tv series 'South Park'. Whereby, the pilot episode used cutout animation which actually mean't that the character were used as paper cutouts. Also, for the actual original animated shorts for the programme, construction paper was being used. However, subsequent episodes have been produced by computer animation, which one of the main reasons would be because it took far less time. The target audience for the tv series was adults, this was due to its crude language as well as surreal humour. The use of the overall animation actually was inspired by the paper cut-out cartoons which were made by the animator, Terry Gillian, for 'Monty Pytho's Flying Circus'.
Another television series which also used stop motion techniques was 'Pingu'. This tv series used clay animation for their shows. The video below is an example of the pilot episode of South Park using construction paper:
The television channel E4 is known for using stop motion animation within a variety of their channel idents. With the idents they seem to have a theme of different types of rooms. E4 are big with their idents as they're bright, bold and animated. We as the public enjoy their idents as they tend to be eye catching and always consist of something random and silly. We want ours to be for a young audience this would be so that it helps with the planning of our own.
The history behind BBC television idents actually began within the early 1950s, this is when the first BBC displayed logo between programmes to identify their service. As new technology was becoming available, the devices were evolving from simple still black and white images to the sophisticated full colour short films which are seen today. With the arrival of the digital services within the UK (United Kingdom), and with them many more new channels which branding perceived by broadcasters to be much more important. This meant that the dinettes needed to stand out from their competition.
MTV tend to have an enormous amount of different styles in which have been over the years that it has been around, with many being shared worldwide as well. The use of stop motion has generally been used to create partially all of them. And the use of colours and shapes had really stood out for me, but all in all they all consisted off something random or just generally being random.
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