Background in animation (A film project 'Scream')

Art is changing and evolving during the period, between the primitive ages that mankind exists and the time today. Parallel to this process, man is creating various recording and transferring procedures, in other words, expression methods to determine truly, keep and pass on the knowledge that he experienced and/or acquired. Being one of these expression methods, cinema is changing and increasing its popularity in time with the help of not only its educational-documentarist side but also its entertaining side as well. Being parallel to the cinema, the art of animation, developed its original language as well. And carried the illusion, that it took over cinema, to a further step and created many realms for its audience, which cannot be realistically created. Every narration not only needs components such as a time flow, an argument, characters, etc. but it also needs a location and environment in other words the background. The environment and the background is an important factor, which binds the characters to the story, which binds the characters to each other and also it ensures the development of the plot. It serves the form and the style of the animation and is decisive. In this the environment is defined and then simply emphasized the importance and the necessity of the background for an animation project. The components of the background are being examined and the importance of the contributions of the background's rich expression methods to the storytelling during the creation process helped this study to the conclusion utilizing various samples. In guidance of these explorations an animation short film project, titled 'ÇIĞLIK (SCREAM)' is being finalized. By showing the contrast between the real-life version of the character and the character in his fantasy world, the conclusion is being reached that background is the most important emphasis of the character.