Sabrina Gardiner proposes creating a series of short educational cartoons for children focused on geography, exploring notable countries and their cultures. The project aims to animate characters while teaching children basic geographical facts, utilizing Adobe software for production. Various distribution methods and copyright considerations are planned, along with support from mentors for refining skills and feedback.

1. Proposal For My Animation
Project
By Sabrina Gardiner

2. Brief outline of my idea
Create a series of short children’s
educational cartoons about
geography.
Each cartoon will look at a different
country, together with basic details
(e.g. the capital city).
There are 192 countries in the world,
so I don’t plan to explore them all,
but only the ones we know the most.
(e.g. England, Spain or the US).

3. What I hope to achieve from this
project
To have brought my
characters to life in an
actual cartoon.
For children to learn
about other countries
and their cultures
through watching my
cartoons.
Learn how to use the
more advanced
features of Adobe CS
software packages
(e.g. Photoshop and
Flash).

4. Examples of existing work
The Provinces (and Territories) of Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-UTq0i5so
Geography Lesson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyzQItUhXyw&spfreload=10
The Countries of the World Song - Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOti8U_-BNM

5. Who will help me?
• Refine research skills.
• Help me to reflect on my work and communicate
effectively.
• Help keep me on track.
Maria
Espinosa
• Will teach me how to use the relevant software.
• Check to see if the animation runs smoothly.
Eleanor
Meredith
• Give me feedback on my work at regular tutorials.
• Give me pointers as to what to do next for my
project.
Martin
Ford

6. Possible distribution methods
Uploaded to an online video website (e.g. YouTube
or Vimeo).
Published on a blog, or my personal Tumblr
account.
Published on a DVD, where parents can select the
cartoon they want their children to watch.
Could even be sent to a film festival or exhibition.

7. Testing method
Upload my cartoons online.
Assemble an audience.
Play one of the cartoons.
Eleanor may look to see if the animation
and sound are synced, etc.
Collect feedback from both Eleanor and
the audience.

8. Copyright issues
Pictures
Stock photography is copyrighted
by the person who took the photo.
Only download pictures which are
free-to-use (i.e. do not need the
permission of the copyright holder).
Try to create my own images
whenever possible.
Audio
Most music online is copyrighted by
the composer.
Do not illegally download music.
Get a music student to write their
own music (if they can).

9. Bibliography
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