Motion Graphics/Animation- Proposal

At the beginning when asked to think of topics for our Motion Graphics project, I came up with Crime/Protection where I thought I could research on how many individuals carry some sort of protection around with them on daily basis, that they believe they could use if they where caught up in a situation where they had to defen themselves. Pitching it to my tutor I realized that it is too broad of a subject and will be quite difficult to execute. My other idea was researching on how Tax is used i.e where all our money goes to when we pay tax.

 For my 3d animation I want to create a 30 second clip that everyone can relate to. It is something that is always there and everyone faces in their daily life’s. So I chose to create a animation educating the risks of STD’s. I want to start off with the most common STD’s and how people tend to over look them thinking that they would never get it and that’s where I want to go deep into the facts about STD’s and how easy you can get them without taking proper precautions. I also want to introduce the HPV virus that has come to surface through out the past couple years and that has now also been proven that you can contract it from oral sex as well as just sex.

My research will all be facts on STD’s coming from reliable sources such as NHS, The guardian etc. and also looking at other animations on my topic through Youtube.

By producing a humorous yet informative animation that will be funny as well as well as serious my aim is to raise awareness of STD’s as nowadays they can be lethal, if not careful and using facts and statistics I will try to prove my point. There are so many new precautions such as jabs, that everyone should get to protect them selves and get regular check ups, as you might be the cleanest most responsible person, but even when you’re not sexually active there is loads of diseases you can catch.

I will be using Photoshop to design my layouts and  Adobe After Effects to put this animation together, although as I am not familiar with the program I am not sure how far I am going to be able to execute my idea to its highest standard, but I am determined to try my hardest.

From my previous assessments I have learnt that being organized with time keeping is very vital and is something I wish to improve. I would like to improve more on my research and look into things more in depth. I haven’t had any problems with the programs used so far but After Effects seems to be more of a struggle for me as I have never been really good with Motion Graphics, but I am determined to create a strong animation, that will cover all areas of my chosen topic.