Objective
For a children’s sexual abuse prevention workshop, Diakonia reached out to us to create an animation. They asked us for a series of slides to portray different scenarios, each showing a different type of physical contact. The purpose is to explain which contact is appropriate and which isn’t, and what to do in each case followed by the slogan “It’s not your fault. You should inform”.
Target audience
The workshop and animation targets children and adolescents who are vulnerable and more likely to become victims of abuse.
Implementation
With our fully customized illustrations, we brought to life the animation that takes the audience on a journey from the Lebanese shore, to the drillship, bottom of the sea and then to the final destination, the control room. Each element throughout the whole animation played a significant role in delivering a specific message to the audience and to answer the questions asked by SEA.
Steps
Our team met up with LOGI for our first meeting to discuss the purpose and content of the animation. Based on what our clients provided, we wrote a basic script for a one minute animation. Accordingly, we then created a storyboard and our illustrator designed 2 frames that show the mood, style and color scheme of the whole animation. Once we got the approval of our client, we resumed to illustrate and animate the rest of the video based on the 1 min time frame. Later during the project, LOGI provided us with an expert who elaborated on the script adding more technical details to it and extending it to 1:40 secs. In order to not redo the work that had already been finalized, we had to accommodate the already done animation to the extended timeframe by adding elements and fillers.
Features
- The small elements in the animation are not random, each one plays an important role in the story.
- The journey starts off showing Raouche rock to specify the setting
- Then a fisherman and a jet skier show that their activities and lifestyle are undisturbed by what’s currently happening under water, the exploration.
- The fish following the drill to the bottom of the sea show curiosity not fear to signify that the exploration will not harm them.
- The control room at the end scene shows the main role of LOGI and the public to keep a close eye on the procedures
Challenges & Solutions
The content we were provided by LOGI and the expert’s script was highly technical. It was our responsibility to research the whole procedure of exploration, the tools and machinery used. Once we had a clear understanding of it, we were able to stylize the illustrations of the process yet keeping it as realistic and comprehensible as possible.
Another challenge we faced was that the script was not finalized before we created the storyboard which was initially planned to be a one minute animation. The script then turned out to be 1:40 minutes, so we had to adapt the animation to accommodate that extra time. We did that by adding filler scenes, extra elements and extended some scenes a bit longer.
