Blog 4 - Survey the thoughts

Except for the last two questions asking about the age and gender of participators, other questions are about Avatar movie, adult animation, if we should pay attention to animation as culture production, if animation ratings are helpful for the development of animation industry, becoming an animator and so on.

         For the question of Avatar movie, I want to learn about the responses of such movies combining live actors and animated actors from the participators. Some people may have a stereotype that animation usually is naïve just for children because the plot and the expression of animation in terms of images look simple. But in Avatar which is one the most popular movies in 2011, many people may have seen before. In this movie, by employing the motion capture technique, the wonderful and sophisticated Pandora world and Pandora people were created and they are the most attracting scene in this movie compared with the other real world. The animated part is not simple and definitely it is not just for children. In this situation, I want to know whether people still feel those animated characters are childlike? If not, I can guess what the potential reasons are. Is it caused by the story behind the outlook of this movie? Or just due to the new design of animated characters?

         Normally, we would not consider animation as one kind of culture production but an entertainment that may be teaching. For real, some animations are very funny and interesting and usually children animations are supposed to be somewhat educational. But rarely, animation is taken as a culture production reflecting some cultural values, morality and ideology. This is understandable because the story in animation is an image expression by the animators. But this values and views can be conveyed to and even influence the audiences. As for the culture inheritance and history aspects, this phenomenon needs our serious attention. So I want to know what answers from participators are when being noticed that and may guess how far the participators can think about the question.

         The first profit of animation ratings that people normally think should be the protection for audiences. What are other functions of animation ratings? In my opinion, it can also protect the animators because rating system provide a safe place where animator can focus on one type of animation and create freely for the target audiences. They may not concern much about the possible risks. They don’t need to worry about the audiences for that the animations are suited because the rating system would take over that. So I want to learn about the deep recognition of rating system from the public. If we can understand the thing we want to do, it could help us as much as possible.

My survey link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C2LLTJM.