In order to start creating my practical animation for the context of practice brief which included an essay, I first had to gather some ideas and plan out what I would animate and what subjects and themes I would talk about. I wanted to relate my animation to my chosen essay subject in some way so in the end I chose the theme of propaganda and typography for my animated response.
Firstly, I thought about a small caricature of Adolf Hitler silently narrating the animation by using facial expressions. hand gestures and body language to show whether or not he liked the fonts in question. I chose to use the two typefaces Fraktur and Bauhaus for the response as they were both very controversial and served a huge purpose in propaganda/social cause at the time. They both almost competed against each other with Bauhaus depicting a modern, more free Germany (and Europe) and Fraktur being used as a very traditional, frighteningly beautiful font in order to represent Hitler's rise to power.
One of my ideas is shown below.
I started thinking about how I could make the animation more obviously related to war. A lone tank rolled across the frame leaving Fraktur in its tracks. The last letter evolved into a turret, soon firing a turret of which exploded and left a fact behind. Hitler then gave a thumbs up to show his love for Fraktur. I wasn't so sure about this idea as it was too literal and wasn't creative enough. It didn't have any "wow factor", so I came up with a few better ideas and finally settled on this... (See next blog post)