Study Task 6- Practical response

Outlining your practical approach to exploring your subject. 

• What you intend to investigate and why?

Different technology and the storytelling techniques they lend themselves to because i think finding a correlation between specific mediums and the way in which narrative is told will give insight in to how effective storys are conveyed. 

• How the research / reading can be used is to be used as a starting point (theorists / writers / phenomena / case studies / quotes).
  What activities do you  intend on undertaking? Questionnaires / focus groups / experiments / visits / use of materials and media. (is it highly experimental or more formal sketchbook activities?)

Use of materials and experiments. Visits (ie Aesthetica) It's more formal sketchbook activities resulting in finished pieces.

I want to focus on backgrounds and the gifs to feel like fully realised grabs from a storyboard.

• What do you envisage the end product being? A short animation, GIF, Rushes, A sketchbook? An artefact? A record of activities or event?

A collection of sequential gifs (3?) that use the mediums/technology specified in the essay and demonstrate different storytelling techniques. 

• Start doing the work!

Study task 2 - Research Question

'How have the storytelling techniques in animation been informed by the advancement of technology within the industry?'

I wanted to form a question that addressed the themes i was interested in. This is a prototype and needs refinement.

Through making a series of sequential images utilising different animation techniques referred to within the essay, I will attempt to explore different techniques.

I rewrote the question to make it clearer: "How has the advancement of technology within the animation industry informed the development of visual storytelling tropes?"

Study Task 1 - Initial Ideas

The themes i gravitate to the most are history and technology. I think that exploring a question that combines these themes with a focus on aesthetics or narrative would be interesting and pair well with a visual outcome.