To get an idea of what the client in this brief is looking for, we were tasked with looking at and analysing past submissions to the Bradford Animation Festival.
Looking at some of the examples of previous entries and winners of the Bradford Animation Festival, I had not realised just how diverse the entries to the festival can be. There was professional content as well as amateur work, student films and even work done by children. The diversity of media is also remarkable, covering traditional, CGI and stop motion, among others.
Though the Bradford Animation Festival website does not always give access to the full versions of the films, I can get a good feel for what they are like through the trailers. What I picked up on is that an animator can submit pretty much anything they like, so long as their own ideas and unique style come through in the final piece.
I found the piece titled 'Women's Letters' by Augusto Zanovello particularly interesting. It was an unusual concept; a stop motion animation in which a field medic in World War I uses the letters of beloved women to treat the wounds of the paper soldiers. I assume that the idea behind this is that their letters from home helped give the soldiers on the front lines the emotional strength they needed to keep fighting despite abject despair.
If I can think of an unusual slant on the 'Human to Superhero' transformation theme, I should be able to create an original answer to the brief (and maybe even have a contender for the BAF).
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