"Genuine allyship is probably not going to feel good for white people. It means giving up power, money, wealth, opportunities, things that will change the quality of your life and make it feel relatively worse. […] It requires loss." - Othega Uwagba
Animation Schedule:
24/01 – INTERVIEW with Prix & Michelle
03/02 – EDIT interviews
28/02 – Try DIFFERENT STYLES
07/03 – Personal ANIMATIC DEADLINE & come up with PRODUCTION PLAN
08/03 – ROSTRUM ROOM & try first shots
24/03 – WORK IN PROGRESS Presentation
26/05 – Final ANIMATION DEADLINE!!!
Animation Styles:
Narrative:
Using book pages & draw/ print on top
Print stills from video footage & draw on top
Use collage & lino print for body of knowledge scene
Use collage for "Don't make such a fuss" scene
Use Zoom recording + photos for digital aspect?
Draw frame around live action footage?
Sound Inspo:
Like a podcast
Conversations with Prix & Michelle
White supremacy as the "body of knowledge" which needs to be DECONSTRUCTED
Books
Quotes
Our past of living in a small, white town in Germany
Storyboard & Reference Scenes:
To-Do List (10/03-24/03)
– think of ending & add to animatics
– start animating first scenes
– buy red & black string
Lino Print – Test Loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK2ua3-DLQU
Ideas for scenes:
Production Plan:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G4cEFGCscEgYbCJeVYJC4B_6uWKJP46xVFOEtBSw970/edit?usp=sharing
Important Links:
- Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KRtWJe3_PmNssxkBx2zuYGyy6HKmVaygUqrcfM9DPlw/edit
- Production Plan: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G4cEFGCscEgYbCJeVYJC4B_6uWKJP46xVFOEtBSw970/edit#gid=0
Design Rules:
- colours: black, white, red, brown/beige
- materials: newspaper, book pages, lino print, string, printed photographs & paint
- animation styles:
--> multiplain stop motion
--> collage
--> stop motion photographs
--> lino print
- characters: lino print, outlines (body of knowledge)
- background: mainly newspaper/ book pages & paint
Film Synopsis:
This animated documentary explores topics such as race and racism, but also the relationship between two daughters and their mothers.
The two interviewees, Michelle and Priscilla, give insight into their experience growing up as the only black children in a small town near Frankfurt in Germany. They talk about their upbringing and the way it has been influenced by white supremacist thinking.
Their mothers, who have always supported them and told them to be proud of the colour of their skin, however, have also been complicit in preaching internalized racisms.
All in all, this film by friend and ally Giulia Ciccolella in collaboration with Michelle Buchholz and Priscilla Ahamefule is an anti-racist and feminist approach created to outline and dismantle patriarchy as well as the white supremacist world we are living in.