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 Primary research I have done is  actually emailing a Youtuber "Jaiden Animations" otherwise known as "Jaiden" and asked a question about storyboarding and whether she had any tips and if it was necessary for her if she just started animating right away.

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She has got back to me and said that there is a lot of storyboarding involved. This made me realise that I have to do a lot more storyboarding than I have been doing otherwise as I tend to do little storyboarding and then go into doing whatever I am doing.

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This is because I actually find storyboarding difficult and this is because I tend to come up with stories better when I write them as I go and don't follow a strict storyboard.

I do this because I find storyboards sort of restrictive in what you can do with them.

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I do know that they are very useful but I've just never been good at them; however they are something that I need to get better at because if I get great at storyboaring this will assist in me creating a more credible animation and more understandable animation. Than if I went in blind.

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I do have a storyboard and a simple outline of what I want to do in the animation but nothing fancy or really fleshed out so I can go in multiple directions for my animations if I so choose.

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As I complete more of my animation; I am constantly asking for feedback from my peers to see how they think I could improve my animation. A lot of the feedback that I get is rather simple such as "lessen the glare at this part" or "make this part smoother", every piece of feedback that I get helps me to improve my animation.

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The most important part of Primary Research I believed that I have done was actually talking to my step mum about her experiences when working with teenagers that suffer with debilitating mental conditions. She used to be a mental health nurse that specifically worked with helping teenagers and young adults.

What she told me was that a lot of the problems that teenagers face usually come down to them feeling trapped or alone despite the fact that they have loved ones around them.

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After learning this, this gave me the inspiration to cover topics that could be seen as controversial or less explored than other topics. I knew I wanted to create something dark but now I had specific ideas to try and show in my animation. These being loneliness and a feeling of being trapped. This would also help me to engross my target audience. This being teenagers that prefer something a bit darker or strange than what you would normally find in an animation.

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My step mum also told me that the people she used to work with would be usually unwilling or hesitant to share their problems so this is something that I would want to show in my animation. I thought that I could do this by making the images I show disjointed. This could symbolise that "Fraser's" head is a jumble of thoughts and emotions.

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I wanted to try and portray that the images I show are not actually happening and are all metaphors. However I don't know that if this idea is very well presented in my animation. I think I may have made my animation too literal and confusing.

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A way I could have avoided this was by asking more people if they think my animation seems to literal and if I should change the images I show to be a bit more subtle.