2. Week 1
• This week I started out by writing my pre-proposal. The way I wrote this was by keeping my ideas slightly more open and
just writing a general theme for what I would like to create. This was so I could figure out more of a specific idea later on in
the research and planning stages. I think my pre-proposal went well and gives a reader a good idea of what I would like to
create but still gives me the creative freedom to explore different ideas.
• I the created my inspirations. I started off by looking at animators who inspire me. This was a good place to start because
they connect directly to my project and I watch all of there work so I found it easy to speak about. I then started to look
into more broad areas such as color theory and sound. I decided to look into some more specific films such as “Inside Out”
which I think works well in my inspirations because of the similar themes between the project I would like to create and
the movie. To improve my inspirations I think I would add more visuals to prove and back up my reasoning and I would
also speak more about general inspirations that will have inspired me to make certain decisions when creating my piece.
• My proposal went quite well and I think that it was definitely helpful to have written my pre-proposal. I found that I
couldn’t settle on one idea just yet because I have a few in mind and I would like to decide on one after I have conducted
more research. One thing I struggled with was trying to find books that would relate to my project that weren’t just books
on animation. This resulted in me looking on the college online library for books on animation and media theory. I
managed to fill my bibliography but I think I managed to find sources that I will almost definitely use. The reason I have
done this is because I think it will be a great help to have all my sources in one area so I can easily navigate between them
and get the information I need where and when I need it. I tried to keep the proposal quite open to new ideas and
modifications so that I could adapt the idea later. I think that after I have done some more research into my audience and
what I want the subject of my film to go into, I will be able to decide for definite what I want the mood and tone of my
final animation to be.
• Overall I think this week went quite well although I had a few problems with finding books for my bibliography I think that I
managed to overcome this problem by using the college online library. I think that it will be helpful to go back and look at
my proposal if I need to get more of a variety of ideas as its quite open to interpretation.
3. Week 2
• This week I started on my first week of research. I started by looking into some existing products. The reason
I started on this is because it would give me a better idea on the path I would like to go down and it is also a
good way to let the reader know why I have gotten my inspiration from straight from the start. I then went
back and added a little introduction and explanation to what my product will be to add aa bit of explanation
and context to the research. From all this I have learnt a lot about color theory used in the shows I
researched and I decided to add a little research on the color and shape theory's I saw.
• I then did some secondary research on he main factor’s such as age and gender. I started some research on
location and income but couldn’t find enough useful information so I decided to cut these slides. I found it a
little tricky to find easy to display information. I spent a lot of time on these smaller slides because I know
that it is very important on the results of my product. I then created a short survey which I created a draft of
first and I decided to go with my second which was more heavily based on the mental illness side of my
product instead of the animation. I am going to write about the results next week. I think its important to do
both types of research because secondary can give you a more general idea of the audience your looking for
but with primary it can be very specific and a lot easier to send that information to a specific audience to get
more useful answers. It also allows you to choose specific questions that can impact the final product
greatly.
• After this I did some research into the causes and signs of depression as these are the things that I will need
to portray in my animation. I also wrote a lot about the context of my product and why I think I need to
create this. For this I researched how many teenagers are educated in depression at high school and also
what the main demographic for people to started getting mental illnesses was. This information was very
useful because it essentially made my product very well needed as my results showed that its teenagers who
need informing on this sort of stuff the most.
4. Week 3
• This week was the second week of my research and I got quite a good amount of research done. I
started by looking at the results of my primary research. I found this very helpful and I think it was
essential information to collect for my product to be created. I think most of the questions were
quite successful although a few individual ones could be improved. Some of the results in my
primary research were quite surprising for example the way that all 19 of my participants have
some sort of relation to mental health and it was also interesting finding out what people knew
about the symptoms of mental health. This will have an impact on my research because it will
help me decide what symptoms to put in my video as some need to be made more aware than
others.
• I then started to research into places that my product would be displayed and other animations
similar to mine. I started to look at why I was making my product and write a bit about why I think
this product would be useful. I found quite a lot of articles that backed up my point of saying that
we need more educational materials on mental health in high-schools. I also found the same
results from my primary research. I think this is one of the strengths of my research because it
validates the production of my product and it also means that there is more reasoning to create
it.
• If I had more time I would do a little more research on men's mental health as I found out from
my primary research. I did a little more research into men's mental health but I think I could do a
little more. I'm not yet sure weather my character is to be a male or female but it would help
doing the research if my character was a male. Overall I think that my research was very
successful and I know pretty much everything I need to to create my product from the symptoms I
will try to make aware to the reasoning behind my product.