Purpose

I've decided to alter my final piece from what was originally planned. Originally I had intended to do a short idiom animation, then maybe add two or three more if I had the time. Now however I've decided to change it so that I do still have several idiom animations, but more in the region of ten, and connecting them all so they make a story. I think this would be more beneficial as I would create a short film, around 3 minutes, all from stop motion. However I think that developing all these photographs as originally planned would be overly ambitious as there would be in the region of 2,500 photographs and I think this would be unrealistic. So I'm considering just having a portion developed so I don't lose the original idea entirely. I also believe that by doing this as a story I also have the opportunity to just add portions of different styles of animations rather than creating an entire video using one method. I plan to include stop motion photography, drawn animation and flash.

The purpose of my animation would be to help foreign people or tourists better understand English idioms. I did previously explore this concept as seen in a previous post and I think it would be best that my video is both informative as well as just entertaining. I think this combination will be good for keeping the audiences attention and thus helping them understand the content. As far as I can tell, apart from the one video I included in this blog which is a series, there aren't any other videos or projects at all that are doing what I plan to do. The video I previously researched (for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzWiug-PIaE) is in fact an interactive video and has ambiguous content, whereas my animation will depict the idiom accurately so rather than guessing, the target audience are shown what the correct answer is. I think this is good as it shows variety between the two videos.