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To what extent has Animation constructed our understanding or view of historical events and perceptions of truth?

Context of Practice 3 Research Proposal Grace Qin

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Context of Practice 3 Proposal

Research question The research question should be discussed on varies aspects as animation itself being a complicated form of art that could be influenced by numbers of elements that formed the animation. Animated documentary is a particular form of animation that reflects on historical events, society phenomenon or facts, etc. Animation could be a broad topic to talk about, The specific aspect that I could be exploring are more specific elements of the animation, such as the character designs or the scene design that I argued during the Context of Practice 2. Alternatively discuss the influence of animated documentaries. The question may be altered: to what extent has the animated documentary constructed our understanding or view of historical events and perceptions of truth? The main body discusses the character designs within animations especially animated documentaries.

Introduction A formal definition of animated documentary have not been clearly determined, I agree that it is an art form with highly freedom of replacing inexistent objects in reality, and visual effects which are unable to restore physically. The differences with filmed documentary determines how it constructed the understanding of history events, with artistic treatment.

As an art form, I think it strongly manifest the personal attitude of animators, based on historical events in all forms, with rational storylines.

The achievements and the nature of animated documentaries have attracted me, therefore I want to discuss its influences on understanding of historical events, either informatively or politically. In my opinions, each piece of animations can be interpreted as a form of documentary that reflects on all sorts of aspects, the purpose of the research of this question can improve the understanding of the reflections and perceptions of an animated film could give to its audience, I believe that it improves the ability of writing effective storylines and scripts as well.

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Context and Themes Contextual images:

A Is For Autism, 1992, short film, Fine Take Productions

Animated Minds, 2009, film, Glynne, A.

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Survivors, 1997, film, Sofian, S.

Waltz with Bashir, 2008, film, Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d’Ici, Razor Film Produktion GmbH

Madagascar, carnet de voyage, 2010, film, Sacrebleu Productions

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Relevant books or journal articles Honess Roe, A. (2013). Animated Documentary, Palgrave Macmillan Kriger, J. (2012). Animated Realism: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Animated Documentary Genre, Oxford: Focal Wells, P. (2015). Understanding animation, London: Routledge Ward, P. (2012). Documentary: The Margins of Reality, New York: Columbia University Press Hann, J. (2012). A case for the animated documentary, Bozeman, Montana: Montana State University.

Marcus, D. and Kara, S. (2016). Contemporary documentary, London: Routledge.

Relevant websites Animated Docs. 2017. The animated documentary [online] https://animateddocs.wordpress.com/ (Accessed 15 April 2017) Pixar Animation. 2017. Character designs [online] http://pixar-animation.weebly.com/character-design.html (Accessed 15 April 2017) Short of the Week. 2017. Animated Documentary [online] https://www.shortoftheweek.com/channels/animated-documentary-collection/ (Accessed 18 April 2017) IMDb. Animation documentaries [online] http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=animation&sort=moviemeter&title_type=d ocumentary (Accessed 27 April 2017) Paste Magazine. The Power of Animation in Documentaries [online] https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/the-power-of-animation-indocumentaries.html (Accessed 28 April 2017)

Relevant quotes “In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.” -Andy Serkis, England, Actor “Animation Means To Invoke Life, Not To Imitate It.” -Chuck Jones “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” -Walt Disney “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.” -Alfred Hitchcock “Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.” -Bertolt Brecht “Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.” -Robert Flaherty

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Case Studies Persepolis (2007) “A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.”

Waltz with Bashir (2008) “An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.”

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Chicago 10 (2007) “Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.”

Sennen joyû(2001) “A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.”

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The Illusionist (2010) “A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman.

Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.”

Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) “An animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.”

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Reflective Practice Proposals: ·According to the research question, I would like to produce set of character designs reflect on historical events, parody of existing designs had important influences on audiences either of understanding or perceptions. ·An ongoing sketchbook recording the process of researching and supporting the arguments. ·Sample of storyline and formal scripts of the animated responses, as a part of the pre-production of the animated response. ·A pitch bible as an individual group of works summarising the designs and scripts. ·An animated response based on the scripts and pitch bible in the form of a collision of styles within the animated documentaries.

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Bibliography IMDb. Animation [online] http://www.imdb.com/genre/animation (Accessed 15 April 2017) Documentary is never neutral. Quotes on Documentary [online] http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/docquotes.html Persepolis, 2007, film, 2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinema, Kennedy/Marshall Company Paronnaud, V. Satrapi, M. (Director).

Waltz with Bashir, 2008, film, Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d’Ici, Razor Film Produktion GmbH Folman, A. (Director).

Chicago 10, 2007, film, Consolidated Documentaries, Participant Media, Public Road Productions Morgen, B. (Director) Sennen joyû, 2001, film, Bandai Visual Company, Chiyoko Commitee, Genco Kon, S. (Director) The Illusioonist, 2010, film, Pathé, Django Films, CinéB Chomet, S. (Director) The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1918, film, Universal Film Manufacturing Company MacCay, W. (Director)

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