Essay Feedback

I was struggling since quite a while in coming up with a strong thesis for my essay, so I decided to have a fruitful conversation with Mike about it.

He pointed out some misconceptions in the essay and corrections to it, which are the following:

• The 12 principles of animation is an aid used by Disney, and it is not a fix rule. It depends on the artist's decision whether to use it or not. Animation is just a media that can be used to brought the artist's vision to come to life, so the method production really depends on the artist's preference.

• pre-production, production and post-production sequence is not absolute as well. It is made to communicate ideas and development clearly in the production process in big studios producing content for TV and feature films to meet tight deadlines. Independent animators works not based on a definite sequence as they have the luxury of time to experiment.

I also told Mike that I want to make a research-based essay, and he said that I can do it. I am more confident as I know roughly what to do after he demonstrates how to put examples into the context of the essay.

He also introduced me some key ideas related to The Culture Industry. While these ideas are applicable and worth-exploring, I chose to be pragmatic and only focus on a few of them and discuss them in depth in my essay.

These are some of the ideas that I would like to focus on:

• The place of animation in the cultural hierarchy depends on the context it is put on. They can be celebrated as a work of art through winning film awards and exhibited in an art space, while they are mass entertainment when they are screened on TV. 

• Some animations were made commodities, and it had lost its genuine values because of the profit-driven big animation studios'efficacy is based on preceding successful film. The artist's vision, which is the essence of a work of art, is not applicable for some animation artists working in big studio unless the studio recognised the content as profitable.