Research Poster

Our final assessment for the Research Skills and Methods module involved creating a research poster. This poster is to communicate your research ideas, aims, context, methods and plan for your work through a visual and text based format. This poster has ended up being very closely linked to my updated Programme of Study, which has developed over the semester, starting out as originally more of a checklist of technical techniques I wished to explore for putting together a showreel; to more of a creative question about how to create convincing and believable character performances; and now that my group have a film idea, my study question has become even more focused towards what will be relevant to investigate for our film:

Finished Research Poster

Research & Writing - Abstract

Wednesday 30th October - Handed in the next written assignment for the Research Skills & Methods module. The task was to write an abstract based around the research we have been doing and describing the proposed work for Masters. Within this we were to write about the context within our project, key artists that we may be influenced by, and the perspective that we will be exploring within our own work. Also an explanation of the methods we intend to use was needed.

Through my own research for this, I referenced Ed Hooks book 'Acting for Animators', it has turned out to be one of the most useful books I have come across for learning about performance within animation. It looks at some of the key concepts that I wish to explore within animation, including acting, movement, realism and empathy: 

Research & Writing - The Contextual Review

Amongst the main studio projects and 3D training, we have a Research Skills & Methods module. Our first assignment involved writing about 1 source (or more) in a Contextual Review. My research started in the library and using keywords such as "Animation", "Acting", "lipsync" and "film" to search for some books that might help me with this assignment; and ultimately help me towards creating a question title for my research that links back to my main Exploring Practice module in the studio. Here are the library books I borrowed:

Animated Performance by Nancy Beiman and Understanding Animation by Paul Wells proved the most useful for this particular assignment.

Our next task is Writing An Abstract, due for the end of October.