[COP3]An important turning point of my thoughts

After all these research, I feel like it is shifting away from my original thoughts. I also found that lots of my questions are answered in a different form. How do body language affect storytelling is not a good research topic. It is because body language would not change how the story would be told, what is affect is the performance of the characters. Although body language remains an essential part of a successful character, a good script contribute the most the story. I think storytelling and performance should not be mixed together after evaluating my research. From Charlie Chaplin's film to dances to puppet show, the way the characters(performers) act should be appropriate and suitable for the story. They can improvise but this would not be able to affect the storytelling. Dancers would use different gestures to communicate a story. Although they might change their stance or their torso for a different meaning, the story itself is unchangeable once it is decided.

brainstorm and planning

Therefore I think I would like to base on what I have learnt from my research, to change another topic that could apply these information in it. Since we do not have much time at the planning stage, I started panic because I struggled to find a topic I am interested in and have questions about it. Here are some questions that flew across:

what is contributing more on storytelling?character or background?

How do we put our thoughts in animations?

How do we project our experience and thoughts on characters?

How do an object character feel the world?

Can a character generate empathy without performance?

What is the different on body language when animating an object character and a human character?

How to com up with an unique character?

What makes you character unique?

I tried to stay where I was because I really do not want to waste my time and abundant all the research I have done so far. After that I try to write them in Chinese, my own language, I found this easier to process thoughts and analyse also make sure I understand the topic completely before starting another research again. There are some guide online teach you how to make a good dissertation which I attempted to follow through and came up a semi-project proposal.