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Friday, 7 November 2014

Police Cadet Anti Bullying Project

Really looking forward to furthering my anti bullying work. I have been working on a little test animation (I have done 2 prior).

I have had quite a few ideas on what style I'm going to do for my animation. The animation will be aimed at year 6-7's which personally I think is too narrow an age group. I was bullied quite badly at school and I would say year 7-9 would be a better age group to target. I will probably bring this up with the police cadets.

Animation style ideas

-Stop motion
Drawing over the top of some of the photographs
Puppets/Shadow puppets
Claymation

-Mixed media (digital and traditional)
Photographic element cut up such as buildings or background images giving it a Dada feel.
Maybe include childrens drawings I could maybe get these from the police cadets so they are more age appropriate.
I could also used patterns in the back grounds or on the characters themselves like I have done in these examples.





I could drawing the scenes in sand or mud. But I don't think that may suit the style or audience I'm going for.


I want my animation to have a zany, gritty, cult, retro feel to it.
I also need to consider if I want my animation to be grayscale with key points in colour, monochrome or full colour.


Points I want to bring across in my animation

  • I want to humanize the bully not demonize them, because they are suffering too.
  • I want to get the audience involved, maybe by acting out some of the characters this will help make it more relatable and memorable. 
  • What support is out there, how to deal and cope with bullying.
  • Let them know that bullying can happen at all ages.
  • To include consequences of bullying.


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