Initial Planning

1. Form: A short skateboarding film. Around 2 minutes of roughly 15 clips.

2. Animation Type: It's a rotoscoping animation of skating. Definitively a rotoscoped skate edit.

3. Selection of genre or style: The genre I guess could be extreme sports but the style is more towards the abstract side of things in terms of how the rotoscoped version of the clips will look. Its an abstract style because of the way you trace around the live action footage it'll be with various colours and strokes so the final look of it will be somewhat all over the place.

4. Storyline: There is no real fixed storyline in a skate edit however I will try and include ongoing themes throughout and possibly a build up to a certain trick with a few failed attempts before the final trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IimLnyOeCtY
This is where i got the inspiration for the idea.

Ideas For Animation

For my animation I am going to do a rotoscoped skate edit. I am going to film various people doing various things. I will storyboard what I think it will look like but it may well turn out to look completely different. I can't imagine the structure of it until I go out with a camera and get filming. I can see what the style of rotoscoping will be like but I'm not sure what I'm going to film yet.

Risk assessment
There are a few risks within this animation. As it is going to be around skateboarding there will always be possibilities of someone hurting themselves however the people I'll be filming have been skating for a very long time and the only reassurance I can get from them is that they know what they're doing.

My animation in terms of current trends

The Simpsons is a big influence in my animation. I want the movements of the characters to be similar and also the sort of ironic slapstick comedy they have. And the way each character has the trait or something they are recognised by; like bart is recognised by his skateboard, Homer by a beer, Marge is normally knitting, Maggie with her bottle and Lisa is probably studying with books.

Regular show has a classical style to it which would be present in 'The adventures of brandal'.
It would have the same sort of style and pace of the regular show.







I think my animation fits into current trends because of the style of animation and also the genre of it. It's quite ironic and sarcastic like some of the current popular TV cartoons are. However it has a different message to other characters its for an older audience as it isn't meant to inspire kids to act as the main character does. The kids who watch it should be old enough to think for themselves.
I would imagine it to show on Cartoon Network alongside with Regular show.

Scheduling

Representations And Ethics In Cartoons

Why does the writer of the article believe Rio 2 is problematic in terms of it's representations?
The writer believes Rio 2 is problematic due to it's racial hierarchy of voice actors with the white americans as the main characters and the Latin, mixed race and African Americans as the less significant characters. Jamie Foxx and Will.I.Am play to 'hip hop fluent' birds. Which the writer describes as stereotypical. Also the evil villain in the film is British as is the case in quite a few disney films.

What are the PEPS and why are they an issue for racial representation?
PEPS stand for Problem contexts, Entertainment contexts and Performance contexts. 
"Within PEPs, black people and other genotypes have to be associated with vexing circumstances," he says. "Strive to pacify, make others happy and be exceptional or extraordinary – far from 'normal'. Villainy, exoticism, jocularity and athleticism are common indicators of this malaise. Images of ethnicity do not need to be conveyed within the narrow scope of PEPs."
PEPS are an issue for racial representation because it follows the idea that ethnicity within animations are portrayed as a group of their stereotypical conventions of their background. Which basically throws a certain race into a group of stereotypes.

Why does Da Costa believe we end up with stereotypes in animation?
He says the decisions of the character and performance are rushed because the design and production processes must start and develop. It consciously and subconsciously weighs financial against moral obligations. So they always go with the safe representational defaults - stereotypes. 

Legal and Ethical Grid

Target Audience

Age: 9-14 year olds.

Gender: It is moderately male based but it isn't that specific to gender.

Media: consumption: Adventure time, The Simpsons.

Actual reader profile

Name: Sam

Age: 12

Average day: Goes to school and comes home and do some homework then eats dinner and watches TV until he goes to bed.

Hobbies and interests: TV, Social networking (twitter, facebook, instagram)                      

Spending power: His weekly allowance of 10 pounds.

Typical media consumption per day: 2 and a half hours of TV, 1 and a half hours of social networking.

Why the animation will appeal to him: Because he is interested in cartoons and general media consumption. The main character is funny to him because he's troublesome. But as he is a little older he can still think for himself so he isn't influenced by the actions he would see Brandal do.