I first tried to look for something simalar to what i am planning to do. The only videos i could find were very clinical. They showed a lot of detail about endometriosis and theres no soft approach to it.
I instead tried to look for other instances where it was difficult to talk about the subject but an animation was created to help shed light on the issue. Recently, campaigns to raise awareness of mental health issues has been on the rise.
The animation tells a story of a school girl feeling stressed and how she approaches her mother about it. It then goes on to talk about a boy who had great difficulty overcoming his feelings and had problems talking to people about it. The animation itself is quite simple in style and often uses visual symbolism to illustrate what is being narrated. It is about 5 minutes long and tells both stories in an effective amount of time. The target audience is for high school pupils as these are simalar to who is featured in the animation.
This shares a simalar topic with the previous animation. This one seems to focus on stress from working too much at a higher level and it effecting their studies. Again, a very simalar animation style. Quite simple and illustrative. This one is a bit longer at 6:26 but its primary focus is to tell more of a story.
This animation talks about blindness and shows a young girl explaining her friends blindness. She mentions why he does things differently and how he manages to get around and still do things all the other children do. I found this to be an interesting example as its a very innocent explaination of something quite complicated.
The following are videos i found that use different animation styles to give the viewer information. They are quite informative but do not have anny narrative. I would hope to use a narrative to get the information across and tell a story. These videos are examples i found of an art style i have used before. I often use silhouettes as it is easier to project yourself onto a blank canvas and hopefully create more empathy for the character. It draws on the user to use more imagination adding their own personal take on what they are seeing.
I wanted to keep the audience for the leaflet as open as possible. That is why i have avoided any imagery on the front and back of the leaflet. I was concerned putting any feminine illustration on the front may divert people from picking it up. The colours may be considered feminine but the presence of the yellow may help to balance that out. It is something that can be given to any one of any age without being too graphic and detailed. This is also to avoid any sort of embarrasment that comes from talking about such a thing.
The first example uses a good combination of text and images to create a hypercomic. This may be ideal for my project as i want to keep it minimalistic to keep the focus on the emotions and message. The second example was playable novel i picked because i like the art style. It might be good to have a monochrome colour scheme with pops of colour to portray how the character is feeling using colours that have a strong signifier.
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