Visual Response: Initial Ideas

I decided that I wanted to create a visual artifact relating to the issue that I discussed within my essay, which is racial representation. I feel that by doing this I will be able to make my work load slightly easier, as I have already done plenty of research into this topic, which will also give me a few good places to start from in terms of idea generation.

Throughout my essay I discussed how racial representation within animation has progressed throughout the years and pointed out how although racial representation has improved massively over the last few decades, it is still a problem that is present within today's animation. Taking this into account, I would like to go down this route and create something that will visually demonstrate this change throughout the decades, but that will also point out that misrepresentation of race isn't an issue that is solved. 

My first initial thought was to create an animated presentation that pointed out the change in the use of stereotypical character design throughout the last few decades. And I like the sound of this idea. However, I do only have up to 30 seconds of presentation time, so it may be difficult to show this as well get across the point that stereotyping still occurs within animation today. 

Having said this, I don't feel that creating my own racially representative characters would help get this point across any better, unless it was stated and made obvious that these characters differed from today's animated characters in some way. 

I think I need to focus on the chronological element, as my idea revolves around presenting the change in racial representation throughout animation history. However, I'm not quite sure what I actually want to do whether I want to create a storyboard of an animation, an animatic, an animation or an animated presentation. I need to go think about each of these different ideas and see which one I feel will be the most successful at portraying my ideas.