AA: Food and You

Food and You is an animated documentary on

It has a very simple animation style focusing a lot on text at the start before changing to audio narration with animations that give a more literal picture of what the animation is about.
It uses a simple colour palette that gets to the point and focuses on the subject at hand rather than trying to make it all pretty and animated. I feel like it is easier to pay attention to the narration this way - though there are still bits of text and the animation itself is obviously supposed to take you through this journey and illustrate their points, I don't feel like you could completely get the point of it without the narration.

I like this documentary, but you need to pay attention; the diagrams help to give you to understand the number/proportion side of it, but there is so much going on in the video that the viewer needs to be able to concentrate on both aspects of that. The video is almost 8 minutes long - while there are much longer documentaries out there, having to pay attention to the animation especially as it gets more detailed and complicated will be hard for some people, and it is very easy to miss facts. This makes it much less suitable for children, besides the fact that there is no 'fun' factor or anything in particular to make it entertaining. Even with animation, it feels more like a lecture, and isn't something to view casually.

I do like how it talks about the changes, and how the facts of the video will keep changing. It isn't as negative as it sounds at first, and urges you to get involved which is important when it comes to subject matters like this.

I think that having so much going on at once will not be as effective when we create our animation for a younger audience, and if we do go for a voiceover option then we would probably need to dial down the amount of facts and statistics. The choice in colour palette isn't that exciting, especially not for a bouncy, upbeat animation, so this video informs us more on what we don't want to do rather than giving us any ideas for what we do want to do.