For this week we discussed about politics in animation and about animated documentaries. We were showed a few different animated documentaries. Where I want to use one for an example of this weeks question, Is it possible for animation to be a documentary?
the animated documentary that really caught my attention was the one called Ryan
This is an Animated short by Chris Landreth and is based on the life of Ryan Larkin. Ryan made a very famous animated piece for his time but unfortunately got caught up in a very bad addiction. to where he lives on the streets asking for money to support his addiction.
The animated short is a documentary about how Ryans life went from an animation artist to living for his addiction. As for the way it has been animated. you can really feel how life has been difficult for him and eating him alive through the animated short Chris made. You as a viewer feel the blurriness of the animation as how Ryan has been living his life as an addict. As far as for the question, my answer would be yes animation can be a documentary. Animation can give a documentary based on facts a shape. so that the viewer can really understand how life is for Ryan. As far as I think a documentary has to be based on facts and realism. But that just means that the story has to be real not necessarily what you see on the screen.
Qouted from Annabelle Honess Roe ‘The long history, however, of the hybridisation of animation and documentary, one that stretches back to the earliest days of the moving image, would suggest that, as in many things in life, opposites can attract in a meaningful way.’ Saying that it would be able to go hand in hand.