Weekly Summaries- Character Research
Week 1:
What I learnt:
In the weekly session of character research, we covered:
the importance of characters and research, essay tips and a little history of
characters with in animation. We were told that our essays must consist focused
but interesting to read, to take inspiration with an open mind. We should
understand our influences, able to word the point ourselves and further develop
and grow ideas.
Characters are highly important; characters are story and
story is character. A character has particular combinations of distinctive
qualities of a person or place, represented in a film or story. Characters whom
are protagonists are given human qualities, because we the audience are humans,
hence the use of anthropomorphism. Stories have the power to manipulate information
to be more memorable, potential to make us see from different perceptive, they tend
to have meanings that adapt us to have more empathetic qualities. Stories
communicate teachings of the ‘human condition’, enabling us to connect with
each other with the use of pathos. In the early 1900, animations tended to be focused
‘personality animation’, giving personal to characters to further create the
illusion of life. Example of these animations:
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‘Gertie the dinosaur’- 1914- Dir Winsor Mccay
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‘Felix the cat’- 1922- the stone age
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‘Steam Boat Willie’
Animated Feature films were desired by Hollywood in the 30’s
as animated shorts lost popularity. Animations began to advance to more realism,
characters needed to be more believable.
Progress this week:
This week, I decided to create a potential character list,
which contained the characters; ‘Elsa’ from Frozen, ‘lapis Lazuli’- Steven
Universe, Emily- Corpse Bride, Rapunzel –Tangled and lastly, Raven from Teen Titians.
I evaluated the reasoning as to why they would be of interest to research
about.
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