Animation Research

Disclaimer: I forgot to post my blog entry of my suicide research onto my blog, so the points that I have made in my research may nor correspond with the points I made in the blog posts before.

Suicide:

According to the site, < http://uk-sobs.org.uk/suicide-bereavement/how-suicide-can-affect-you/how-suicide-affects-others/> Survivor of Bereavement, suicide affects a lot of people around you, including ; Partners, Siblings, Sons and Daughters, Grandparents, Extended family, Ex-partners, Friends and Colleagues, Clients, patients and customers and People who didn’t know the person who died. I am planning to focus on this topic, so that the person who is watching my video goes on a guilt trip, which I hope stops them from committing suicide. 

Suicide is usually affected by the things around them or their background. For further detail, please be sure to check the website, < https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201004/the-six-reasons-people-attempt-suicide>. 

Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for people around the age of 15-19, and according to statistics, males commits more suicide than females. This was a new information for me, as I am surrounded by the female community, forcing my views to waver towards the female side of suicide. The most common way to commit suicide is by sleeping pills, as it is harmless and quick. By using the most common way to commit suicide and the gender that commits the most suicide, I can connect with the majority of my viewers for the video that I am making. 

According to statistics, the universal place where people tend to commit suicide is somewhere where they are secluded from the world, usually at home in their bathroom or their bedroom, somewhere where privacy is a common sense. I would like to use this idea for my animation, to create the scenes in which the character is conveyed to be alone and lonely. 

To start off my video, I would like to have simple background story, a story that triggered the cause of his/her suicide or maybe, I should not so that a variety of viewers with different background stories can relate. I was thinking along the lines of loneliness and depression for the background as that’s the general idea of what suicide is all about. But I know that there’s more to suicide than that, someone wouldn’t just go, oh I’m lonely, I’m gonna kill myself. There’s always that little trigger point, and I would like to find out about it. However, if I am going to do a backstory on depression and loneliness, I would like to add a scene in where the father says to the boy to man up, as a teen in South Korea once committed suicide from that message. Apparently, the boy was severely bullied, but the father didn’t know, so to “encourage” him, he told him to man up, which turned out to be the trigger point for the boy to end his life. The boy must have felt that nobody really cared about his well-being, to know why he looked sad and battered up all day. The dad, however, learnt a valuable lesson and has founded a teen anti-suicide campaign, in order for teens to not end up like his son.  

Summarising all the points that I have researched, for my animation I would like the main character to be about a boy, a boy in his 15-19, who decides to commit suicide in his bathtub by overdosing on sleeping pills. Through cut scenes of affection, I may describe how they were affected and how they feel about it to show their grief. I am thinking of making them die as well, to show how it affects people physically and mentally. 

That’s all that I’ve thought for my animation.