2nd interview recorded and uncle unrecorded conversatoin, study task 1

This week I interviewed my Father on his experience and also gathered a lot of information from him, and like last time I time stamped all the parts of the recording, I would like to use, though I have a feeling I won't be able to use both interviews in the final animation.

A lot of notes were taken because there were so many moments that could be used.

I may end up just with my Fathers interview as it's very powerful, though I will edit the audio to 3 minutes to see if it's possible to fit everything.

As for the information told to me about the history of Iraq foretold by my uncle, he mentioned that during education many events happened, one of which is trying to leave the country to study in the UK.

Getting to the UK was difficult but he managed, though he wasn't free from the Iraqi government, as they would send agents acting as students to spy on people like my uncle. He also mentioned that there were moments the agents were going to take him back, luckily they didn't need to get involved with him.

I could go on to mentioning all sorts of situations he explained to me, but I just wanted to give a quick highlight of an example he told me 

Got my first Interview, study task 1

I invited Zainab, a producer also making a film focused about her Father's life in Iraq. The interview lasted an hour, and there was more than enough material for me to use for the animation.

I listened to the whole recording and time stamped bits I'd like to use. Heres the list:

 

There's a lot of material to use, which is helping me shape how I should change the storyboard of my animation to fit her story into it.

Character Design challenge, study task 2

The theme was biker so I decided upon making a quick design based on what I'm currently learning using grey scare and gradient mapping, the idea I had was to go with a cute girl in my style as I didn't have long to submit when I found out about it with 3 days left for submission.

here's the final drawing, unfortunately, my submission was not added to the collection but I enjoyed making it using the new greyscale approach to understand how to create depth using whites and blacks for lighting and shadows.

Storyboard idea, study task 1

I created a storyboard, based on the three moments I want to create, though in the midst of creating it I stopped because I haven't interviewed the people for this project. Heres what I was considering:

I then created this brief script as to what the animation should be about:

though this may be a bit too much to take on as an animation, I will decide after I have recorded the interviews and edited them. For now, I will need to concentrate on gathering some images for mood boards

Finding out about my History, study task 1

I researched into what occurred in Iraq, and I found this link from the BBC showcasing the whole timeline of events that happened in Iraq, this included Saddam becoming President, the Iraq vs Iran war and much more.

I got a better perspective as to what happened and I could also relate this to Persepolis as it also talks about it throughout the animation.

Heres the link

I also found a video of Saddam announcing that he is the President.



Quite interesting and I may use this as a reference as a part of my animation, making sure that it is historically correct.