Research: What I have RN

How can I effectively represent the close relationship 

I have with my mother through an animated short film, 

using flashbacks as a plot device?

(Due 27/3/20)

Create Title
And subtitle (smol description) 

(The mother is not only telling the daughter the story, she is also telling the audience)

Definitions:
Flashback
Plot Device

Reason:

Share the story of two of my character, 

Help people relate to them, by using my own relationship as inspiration.

Animation is a highly accessible medium and it also has the potential to bring various creations to reality no matter how abstract or unrealistic they may be in real life.

It lets you dream further than real life and allows you to create anything, your own characters and your own worlds.

Methodology:

I use Practice Based Research, Blogging and Observation as my project methodologies 

Proposal of 6 Arguments/Topics

1. Mother/Daughter Relationship
2. Family and Friend Dynamics (and how they affect relationships)
3. Colour and Light 
4. 2D and 3D
5. FlashBacks (Plot Device) 
6. Nariration (Plot Device)
   

How the Argument Supports the Question

Mother/Daughter Relationship

Animation can provide a medium for the representation of the mother daughter relationship. Through animation and the characters I can show my audience the bond between a mother and daughter that reflects my own relationship with my mother.

Family Dynamics (and how they affect relationships)

How other relationships can have an impact on the type of relation a mother and daughter can have with each other.

How Friendship dynamics can affect relationships within a family.

Colour and Light

Colour and Light to emphasize the contrast between the hostile outside world and the sanctuary of the cave, her home and her mother's embrace 

Colour and Light Strategies

2D and 3D
Having the Mother and daughter in 3D will help them feel more fleshed out to the audience and separate them from the flashbacks of the mother's story.

Having the flashbacks 2D will allow them to be more abstract while the 3D, non-flashback will be more solid and realistic helping the audience connect with the characters.

FlashBacks (Plot Device)

Flashback’s are quite commonly used within Stories to reveal something from the past and push the story forward, or in some cases tells an entire story, as the focus of one, may be a character recounting an adventure to another character.

Nariration (Plot Device)

Nariration will be a key method within my story, as the mother is telling a story not only to Ezaru but to the audience, I want nariration because not only is it meant to come of as Martha Telling her past but it has also been a part of storytelling since the beginning, before stories were recorded down, they were passed on by word, which is still common today, through sharing experiences with each other.

Examples to support the argument/topic for the Question

And explanation of how the Example is Relevent

Mother/Daughter Relationship

My Own Relationship:

Frozen:

In Frozen 2, the Mother tells her daughters a bedtime story, this shows us the close relationship and love they had with their mother 

(in explanation say how it relates to your project)

This relates to my project, as it shows a similar love to the one I am aiming to emulate within my own story, the love between Mother and daughter, shown through a story and flashbacks. Frozen 2 like my film aims to create family intimacy or connection through the animated medium.

Brave:

Brave shows the relationship between Merida and her Mother, showing conflict and challenges they face all the while it shows the challenges they face that brings them closer, and strengthens their bond.

Family and Friend Dynamics (and how they affect relationships)

How to Train Your Dragon:

Within HTTYD Hiccups friendship has a big impact on his relationship with his father.

Before their friendship he and his father did not have the best relationship, Hiccup to his father was a disappointment,
During their friendship, it changes Hiccup, which by extension starts changing the relationship between him and his father
After the Climax of the film, the friendship changes the parent/child relationship for the better and put their relationship on the mend

2D and 3D

Winx Club Season 5

Winx club uses both 2D and 3D within this season, it is used with two different world, separating them and exploring a new medium,
The show is normally a 2D show, following the story of Bloom (main character), however in season 5 in search of a new power, they travel to a new type of world to find it.
The strange underwater world is animated in 3D giving it a different look from the main worlds the characters live in.

Mia and me:
While this show has no 2D animation, 3D is used for the magic Elf world, while Live action is used for real life. This helps emphasize that the two worlds are different and using animation for the magic world, it gives more for creative freedom than live action would allow.

Colour and Light

Tangled:

The tower that Rapunzel grew up in is shown to be a warm and welcoming home in the beginning of the movie, in contrast to the ending where it emits the emotion of a tomb and a cold unwelcoming place.

 Kung Fu Panda 2 (Inner Peace) 

During the scene where Po finds his inner peace the contrast in lighting helps reflect the broken mood he is in. The Dark and blue atmosphere combined with rain in contrast to the ram by the warm fireside showing him the path forward, the path to mending and inner peace.

FlashBacks (Plot Device)

Inside Out:

Within Inside out, the memories of Riley are constantly shown throughout the film, Showing glimpse of her past, snippets of memories, these memories are what drives the story and provides us with information of the character, of what and who she was in the past.

Late Afternoon:

Late afternoon is a short film that is driven by Flashbacks, they tell the story of the main character, and show us through memories of her life.

Kung Fu Panda
Within the Inner peace scene, Po’s past is revealed through a 2D paper like animation, it contrasts with the films 3D animation, and using 2D makes it come off as a story being told, one being revisited by the Protagonist Po.

Nariration (Plot Device)

How to train your dragon

Tangled