Visual Response: Choosing my Animations

Thinking carefully about how to successfully show a chronology of animations whilst showing a change in racial representation throughout animation, I had to choose a selection of animations to present that I felt were racially unrepresentative. Keeping in mind that I have six animations that I feel are successfully racially representative I need to try and pick a similar amount for the other collection in order to make the presentation an example of change and chronology rather than a presentation all about racist animations.

This was extremely difficult to do, as I had to remember that my presentation will only last 30 seconds at most and there will be a lot of information for an audience to take in. I feel that choosing a selection of extremely unacceptable animations and animations that are less explicit would be a good call, as it will provide an insight into how racial stereotyping isn't always as obvious as people seem to think and that it is in fact quite implicit, particularly in more recent animation. I also want to portray the fact that more recent animations also completely disregard race altogether.

SO based on the things I want my presentation to convey I have decided to choose the majority of the animations I had investigated for my essay with the possibility of pairing some of the animations together when I present them, as they display similar problems.

By doing this it gives me 8 animations that represent racially unrepresentative animations and 6 racially representative animations throughout animation history. I feel that this is a good balance, as it will imply that racial representation is still an issue within animation better than it would if there was a clear, equal divide between the two. I'm not sure if this will work however, and I need to experiment with how I am going to present these animations and how long I will need to have them onscreen for it to be clear to the audience to see the message behind my presentation. I think a storyboard would be a good step from here.