The secne I will be doing today is in chapter 6 of Animal Farm by George Orwell when the pigs begin sleeping in beds and Squealer “explains” the new rule. I have changed the scene a bit to make it so that Squealer instead of writing the new rule beforehand, he writes the new rule during the scene.

The characters are as followed:

Napoleon: The main man/pigleader/authoritarian overlord (Joseph Stalin)

Squealer: The Soviet Propganda, manipulating the masses also pig

Boxer: a horse that is loyal but very niave, the poltariat

Clover: also a horse, smarter than the other animals but bad at reading and memory (like the other animals)

Book/scene overview

Animal Farm written by George Orwell is a political allegory agianst stalisim and totalitarianism, symbolised through farm animals overthrowing their human owner on the farm. My scene ouccurs in Chapter 6, when the pigs begin sleeping in the farmhouse beds, a betrayle of the origional commandments that state that “no animal shall sheep in a bed”. Squealer quickly changes the rules and manipulates the animals into believing nothing is wrong by saying that they don’t really want to sleep in the beds. This hightlights the pigs rise to couruption.

Scene Summary

As stated before this scene is from Chapter 6 of Animal Farm, when the pigs begin to sleep in the farmhouse beds, violating the original commandments. When the other animals begin to question it (Clover, Boxer), Squealer is quick to act, adding the rule to include the words “with sheets”. Boxer convinces him self that Napoleon is always right and to trust him. This moment reveals how propaganda and fear are used to maintain control.

Reflection

I used multiple skills that we learned over these few weeks ones that include setting the opacity making the words “With Sheets” to appear as if Squealer wrote it, as well as making the chicken run in panic falling into a pit. I also used the colour to change Napleon as he is both a different breed of pig and bigger in size. I learned the importance of turning in which direction as if you think you got it right it might be the opposit, in my case Boxers leg went stright through his body creating a grusme scene. I also used dialect and thoughts to help the viewers to understand what is happening. The move to and turn to face controls were also quite important as talking to the open air is a bit weird it also helps people understand who someone moght be talking to. Overall this project helped me understand how details like direction, colour, and movement can completely change how a scene is understood, and how using tools like opacity and dialogue can turn even my animation albeit a bit confusing but good retelling of a story.

I learned that since all humans and such are part of the bipedal superclass they can inherit all functions and attributes from what we put into the program. We also learned that creating a method makes it so that we can make all the objects form the superclass act in a certain way, like making the objects dance in coordination. This can be used to make all characters from the same class perform the same actions without repeating code for each one. It’s especially helpful for synchronising group dances, where every character follows the same choreography at the same time. For example, if you want to synchronise a ballet number having all the performers dance at the same time it requires less time for you to do so.