Study Task 4 - Choosing a Research Question

Research question: 

What is the role of animation scene design in animation aesthetically?

What is there to study (ontology)? 

There are a number of existing books and articles written by either animators, film directors or writers.

How can we know about it (epistemology)? 

I will include quotations of each forms to support the point in the essay, to inform

How do we study it (methodology)?

I will be analysing texts, animations.

Resources available:

Fraser, M. (2011) Setting the scene: the art and evolution of animation layout, San Francisco: Chronicle Books

Wells, P. (2006) The Fundamentals of Animation, AVA Publishing
Bacher, H. (2012) Dream Worlds, Independence: CRC Press
Selby, A. (2009) Animation in Process, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
Ghertner, E. (2012) Layout and Composition for animation, (n.d.)

Animation available:

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 2002, film, DreamWorks Animation, America.

The Lion King 1994, film, Walt Disney Pictures, America.

IMDb. 2006. Paprika [online]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Study Task 1

Laura Mulvey has stated that gender imbalance within films and animations. She is a feminist film maker who is best known for the essay she published in 1975 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', it suggested that 'women displayed as sexual object is the leitmotif of erotic spectacle', a crucial definition influenced by the women's right movement, addressing that male protagonist provides the sense of authority and the females provide the 'erotic look'. J Storey has referenced to Mulvey's essay of female position in 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture', indeed support one another by suggesting the women in film are 'to-be-looked-at-ness', the term Mulvey used in her article.