I've been thinking a lot recently about what I want my thesis to BE. I want to make vignettes, short animations that can all add up to a bigger entity, like a show for kids. I want to encourage children to think about their impact on the world, socially, environmentally, within their communities and within the human race.
I like animation as a medium because it's fun to do (read: I will want to keep doing it all year), it doesn't create a lot of waste, like printing on paper does, it is captivating for an audience, and it makes people happy.
I've been thinking that I want to make something totally beautiful and silly and funny-looking, not too serious, not slick, but hand-made and home-made. Not intimidating. Something anyone could make.
I want the communication aspect of the project to be friendly and encouraging, because the idea that we're all in this human species together and we all add to the state of the world is beautiful and empowering.
Lucy encouraged me to write some questions, BIG QUESTIONS that I could set up for myself as a framework for the thesis. I have a lot of questions, but none of them seem like the big over-arching question that I'm setting up for myself to set out and answer.
+ How can the message of personal responsibility be communicated in a gentle way to children?
+ Who litters? Why do those people think its OK to litter?
+ What other behaviors are exemplary of an attitude of disconnection to nature?
+ Can these behaviors be easily changed? What would make people want to change?
+ What effect does poverty have on a person's feeling of connection to their community and their environment?
+ Preachy and self-righteous as a communication style doesn't work. What will work?
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