1. Ideas for young people from age 16-25 that shows york
as a welcoming place or get them to visit or even
to make a gritty documentary on the things you don’t
see on tourist guides like the homeless, the crime, and
the people that are struggling to live.
2. For my fmp I'd like to do something in animation, so an idea I had for
this project was to do multiple audio interviews around different
settings in York with the people that belong in that area or work
there. With this audio of the people of York I had the idea to make a
stop motion over it to make it more interesting to look at and it gives
me chance to make things comedic that wouldn’t normally be, like
things going on in the background that are Lego related to the
peoples proffesions that I am interviewing. A show that could be
compared to this is creature comforts. This satiric show, posing as a
reality interview show uses animated animals in the style of
Aardmans' Wallace and Grommit animation and character style. I
have not decided wheather to use scripted lines or just interview
people and make something off that. I would have to make the
questions and make them intresting so the audio recordings sound
plausible and genuine.
3. audience research
The audience that the whole project is aimed at is 12-25-year olds and is going to be made to attract these people to come to york or present the city in some form of media. My idea for this
project is to make a mocumentary skit like the ones seen in the series "creature comforts". Firstly, the person who showed me this programme was my sister who then was an early teen who
liked it become she thought it was funny. So, the comedy aspect of the programme is genderless, the show includes an even array of male and female animals, so it really isn't just aimed at one
gender. I do think the comedy is aimed at mid-teens to late 50s or it could be called like PG adult humor because it's more of the audio that is the funny part and I think for some jokes you have
to have an adult understanding to appreciate and relate to the jokes that are being presented.
To be able to make my project appeal to the target audience, I want to make the animation and dialogue
relatable and humorours. I would like to aim mainly to appeal to this target audience, although id like to
make it accesible to everyone, just like creature comforts does so well. To do this I will need to make the
discussion topics intresting and relevent to most people who are alive. This humor could be based around
money issues, poor working conditions, working people and their chemistry, and the disscusion topics I
have created on the next slide.
4. When interviewing people, which I will need to do for my project , I will need to devise up some interesting topics and questions
that will get a debatable conversation going.
What do you think happens when you die? -controversial, slightly personal, insensitive.
How do you think humans were created?-big range of answers
Favorite food?-can't go wrong
Favorite movie?- funny discussion topic-could reenact lines out of the movie for comedy purposes.
Dogs or cats?
Weirdest place you have worked?- more for the older generation to ask
Student loans?- relatable humor for the early 20s and late teens generation.
How well do you sleep?
And why? Ideas for people to interview-
although I probably will not be
too picky.
middle age/old
couples/friends-preferebly
with a northern accent as
the project is based around
york.
Young people-teens
preferebly with a
modern slang
accent-preferebly
northern.
Young people-
preferebly with
a toddler
accent-like the
haribo advert.
5. Planning.
My idea for the York project is to record a variety of different people around york and have them talk about interesting topics
that spark a conversation that flows normally, this will be animated with stop motion, at the moment I can use various
different types of matter to animate and see what looks best.
Potential ideas
-Stop motion interview like "creature comforts" using either Lego minifigures, plasticine or real moving images that have
digitally drawn on eyes and mouth on various objects around York like the bar wall talking, bus talking, train, coffee, literally
anything.
- 15-30 frames per second, faster movement will require less frames and maybe incorporating motion blurr, depending on
what path I choose to take with what I will be animating
Lego-easily accessible
Plasticine- buy it- much easier/funnier to film- harder to create a person or animal in York.
-arty documentary demonstrating the development of homeless people that live on the streets of York, this can link to drug
use and I can incorporate facts and figures that will inform people on the problem, I will use inspiration from BBC three as
they have very interesting documentary's that have the same audience as mine.
