New Project, New Ideas!

So the dissertation's been handed in and is a lot less stressed. Though that is the case, it seems my new idea that I'm gonna do, goes back to the concept and ideas that were used in my dissertation. However before this idea, I had another narrative which involved a magicians' apprentice who wasn't very good at magic. The apprentice would some how fall in to the magicians hat, inside the hat there would be a maze or problems that he would have to solve. On encountering these problems, he is learning to become a better magician.

After coming with this concept, I came up with a more of a personal concept which also linked with the dissertation. Title Orientalism In Contemporary Western Entertainment: The Use of the Orient and Techno-Orientalism . In my research I noticed that some contemporary animations used Orientalism as a theme or characters, because they were 'different or exotic'. This also links to my personal experience, as I am Chinese. When I moved to new schools for the first time, many people would be interested in me because I looked different, though I was still British.
My classmates would ask me to say things in chinese and try to teach it to them. When there was a new foreign student, their new interest would move on to the new student. Its like getting a new toy in pre-school, everyone would want to play with it. But in my case I want to express that its not a toy, but a human. It is a childish behaviour, however I believe that this concept is a lot stronger than my previous concept.

After drawing a couple of sketches out, I wasn't too happy in setting it in a school environment, though it would be the obvious place. After pitching the idea to the rest of the class, i got quite some good feedback and other ideas, one involving making the character into a puppet or a toy.

I was more happy with this concept incorporated with the setting of the school, because i think it'll be more interesting and it'll express my concept clearer.So next step will be drawing out some concept scenes and the storyboard.