The Boondocks

For our first proper project we were tasked to make a 10 minutes presentation about an animator or animated film, preferably from our country, or an animation area. Link to presentation here

I volunteered to be one of the first people to present, which was on the 19th of October. I spent a few days researching for any animators or animated films from Nigeria or Africa. Unfortunately none of the ones I found had a lot of information on them, and with me running short on time I decided to give my presentation on The Boondocks. I spent the one week I had left reading articles and journals, watching youtube videos about the show as well as rewatching several episodes as well.

I spent a lot of time researching and preparing for this presentation, but when it was my turn I wasn’t able to share my screen which meant I had to spend the file to Collab. And due to that, the design and fonts were messed up and the videos and gifs I had didn’t play which, of course, made me really sad and frustrated. It felt like all that effort got ruin, but I was told the lack of videos and gifs didn’t take away from the presentation, but it was still disheartening.

Overall, other than the disappointed of the actually presentation, I’m really glad I chose to talk about The Boondocks because I was able to analysis one of my favourite shows in a way I had never done before. I had always appreciated the show on it’s ability to talk about such controversial topics in a humours way, but now I love it even more after thinking about it in a more in-depth way.