Visual Response: Idea Development

After some consideration, I have decided that I should focus upon creating a visual representation of racial representation throughout the last few decades of animation. This seemed to make the most sense because we have been focusing upon chronologies throughout out COP studies so far.

So in order to create an animated presentation of characters throughout animation I first need to consider the characters that I feel represent a change in racial representation within animation. I want to make sure that I get a good range within my presentation in order to show how race has been dealt with and how its representation has change in accordance with the findings I found from conducting my essay.

To get a starting point I spent some time thinking about the animations I researched for my essay and placing the characters within them into groups of racially representative and racially unrepresentative. This allowed me to think about how I was going to present this to an audience in a way that would coherently portray my ideas.

As it turns out I found over twice as many animations that are unrepresentative opposed to ones that are, which creates quite a dilemma, as it will make it difficult to show a range within my presentation. Having said this however, it will give an audience a feel for the reality of racial representation within animation and it might be a good thing that I haven't managed to find as many successful animations because it will raise awareness of the lack of fair racial diversity within animation. Nonetheless, it is still going to make it difficult for me to make my presentation appear to be showing a change throughout animation on this issue. In order to make it a little easier for myself I think it would be a good idea for me to choose a smaller collection for the unrepresentative animations, as I feel that this would help to convey the change in racial representation better rather than the presentation seemingly portraying racist animations.