Sunday, 27 October 2019

9/ Essay update

After my second COP tutorial:
-I've shared my essay so far with Mike so that he can give me feedback on whether it's good or not.                                           -I've written a few thousand words and not half way through so I really need to cut my essay down and get rid of the waffle. Mike and I agreed on parts to cut out- like condensing the number of ethnicities that I'm comparing.
-We agreed that a survey will not assist my essay in any way but I am going to reach out to some collectives to hopefully get some insight about diversity in animation. 
This week I reached out to Black Women Animate (Fig1), I am hoping for a reply:


Fig1
 -I found an interesting angle which looks at what happens when you flip racial diversity on its head. 
In Dr Strange, Swinton's casting was controversial, but she argues that by white washing the character it actually breaks down damaging stereotypes.  
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/31/ghost-in-the-shells-whitewashing-does-hollywood-have-an-asian-problem 
-Equally Jordan Peele has said that he would never cast a white man. I will be exploring the spectrum of views 
surrounding casting and whitewashing; including looking at the conroversial case of Scarlett Johannson

-"My hope is that next time issue," says Del Vecho. "I hope that Princess Tiana opens the door for many more animated movies where the characters just happen to be black"
 

-I am editing through my essay so far and working on chapter two.

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