As the identity portrayed in my animation was related to cartoons on television and how they have influenced my life, the animation itself involves cartoony motions. In cartoons, objects tend to move quite radically and so I portrayed this in all of the scenes within the animation. An example of this is where the televisions fly from the sky and fill up the classroom. The way they fall and pile up is completely unlike the way physics works in the real world, an attribute highly connected to cartoons. I also paid homage to ‘South Park’ by using simple mouth cut outs to make it look like the characters in the animation look as though they are speaking.
This entire composition is a temporal montage showing the connection between myself and television, or more specifically, cartoons. I have spent the majority of my life fascinated by cartoons and used up a lot of my free time (and time when I should have been paying attention in classes) drawing and brainstorming ideas for my own cartoons. My somewhat ignorance of reality is captured by the symbols shown in the animation. The tagline, ‘To hell with depth’, relates to this as it professes a sort of hate for the third Dimension and my favour of the two dimensional structure of cartoon animations. The nature and classrooms scenes of the animation relate to the two places I have been likely to become side tracked and resort to my interest in cartoons.
The target audience I have set for my animation is the same in which the cartoons I watch on television and have paid homage to within the animation. It involves similar elements as to what these cartoons have and so I believe my composition will have better chance of success if I target the same audience. This target audience involved anyone from their teenage years through to their forties. But, I wish for anyone who is interested to view it, regardless of whether or not they are belong within the target audience.
My animation goes for approximately 37 seconds. Within this time, there are three scenes. These three scenes include the opening scene, in which a couch and television fall from the sky into a serene sunrise landscape, the second scene, in which a teacher and the classroom wall are pelted with balls of paper (some including sketches I had made in notebooks back at high school), and the final scene, in which the animation ends with static on the screen (accompanied by white noise).
