After my previous tutorial regarding my dissertation, I went away and began to narrow down my research to elements of aesthetics that I felt were the most relevant to storytelling within animation as a start. One of the elements that was pointed out to me during my research was character animation and movement, so I decided to start here, as there is a lot of research surrounding character animation. From here, I was able to get the starting of a chapter ready for my tutorial with Mike.
Although I felt that I had made good progress with my research since the last time I spoke with Mike, I was still struggling to move onto another area of research and to progress with anything further. Mike suggested that it may be because I was lacking an essay structure and encouraged me to get one sorted as soon as possible, as this may help to focus my research. Whilst he liked what I had so far, he felt that I was falling behind a little with work and I had to agree. With this in mind we discussed what it was that I actually wanted to focus on and we came up with a very rough plan of what I could potentially look further into, these were:
Realism
Character Beleivability
Backgrounds
Mise-en-Scene
Case studies x2 (or 3)
I was also encouraged to start thinking what key animations I want to look at. I know that I will be focusing on 2D animation, as this is what I hold an interest in, but I need to think about which animations I am going to study for my dissertation and why.
To move forward I need to create a more defined plan for my essay, so I can begin to conduct more focused research and move forward with my work.
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