Applied Animation: Documentary: Easter: 26th March - 15th April 2018

Over the easter holiday, I didn't get as much done as I had hoped. I did a lot of research into our chosen subject by reading a selection of books and youtube videos. I read The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard which was a very good read to understand the pirate and the events of his death.

I also read Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly which was good to cross reference the research I had gathered.

As well as this, many YouTube videos were very helpful as it gave us some context for what had already been created regarding Blackbeard's death. Many of these different videos were animated or just voiceovers with some basic illustrations. 

We want to go for a relatively serious tone and make sure we are being faithful to the history. I have tried to make sure that my teammates are clear on what they need to do. For example, I told Nicole to be researching into the environments like Virginia and Ocracoke and Andy has been looking into the three main characters of our animation (Blackbeard, Governor Spotswood and LT. Maynard).

Toward the end of the holiday, Andy and I both wrote a script each, based on the research we had gathered. We have tried to contact a few experts so far but no response yet, we will keep trying. We combined the best bits of both of our scripts and then had to trim it down quite a lot to make it fit into 90 seconds.

This was a challenge because there is so much important information to get across but we made sure it was all said in an efficient manner in order to trim it as much as possible. 

Andy has a voice actor friend who will be recording this voiceover for us.