and they're almost inhuman - backwards - ideology that they are trying to instill into our society.
This commentary, or satire more so, tie's in effectively with the content of my essay and the points that I raise in my essay discussing the roles that animation has to play in times of social/political change. I make the argument that animation like any other creative outlet, can be used as a tool for any given means. An example I bring up in my essay is governments using animation as a means of propaganda.
The idea that animation can be used as a tool for many different purposes; persuasion, mediation, commentary, communication, a voice etc, really stuck with me whilst writing the essay and lead me on to using animation as a tool to put out my own commentary on the current changes that I have seen for myself in society and the political establishment. And so this I feel is how
my practical response to the question I have been trying to answer in my essay tie's in.
As for the actual format and content of the practical response I have chosen to render it in, I opted for a newspaper style satirical comic that plays on the choices made by the tory government and brings out the absurdity in the decisions being made. This is relative to animation in the sense that this is sequential imagery, it also uses a few principles of animation such as exageration and anticipation in some of the panels.
To give the comic more of a sense of timing in terms of when a character speaks or an action continues into the next panel I have decided to create out of this an animatic, key framing where I want the viewer to look and how long with voice overs
of each character and added sound effects.
Another reason why I opted for this approach was the time constraints that i was under whilst the practical response was in
production, it had to be simple and to the point - much more effective where satire is concerned.
