Mostafaei: end the death penalty
Digital or visual media
Hodgson, J. 2012. Mostafaei: end the death penalty.
Media type | Video |
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Title of work | Mostafaei: end the death penalty |
Creators | Hodgson, J. |
Description | In September 2011 I was commissioned by Amnesty International and Guardian Films to direct a short animated documentary about juvenile executions in Iran, which would be a pivotal part of a viral internet campaign. The research for the project was based on a four hour Skype interview which I conducted with exiled Iranian human rights defence lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei. Working with writer Afarin Eghbal I produced a 5 minute script that was a distillation of the interview. The script describes firstly how Mostafaei’s childhood experience of poverty and abuse motivated him to become a human rights lawyer and secondly how he defended a young man who had been charged with murder at the age of 17 and witnessed his hanging under sharia law by the parents of his victim. I made drawn sketches based on the script which over a three week period were made into an animatic. This was followed by a 2 month animation production period. The completed project demonstrates how animation can be used as a tool to present harrowing and hard to obtain information in a palatable form to a global audience. |
Output media | 2D digital animation combined with a soundtrack featuring a narration by an actor, specially recorded sound effects and music. |
Research Group | Electronic and Digital Arts cluster |
Publisher or commissioning body | Guardian Media Group |
First publicly available date | |
27 Mar 2012 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 10 Sep 2013 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2012/mar/27/lawyer-fight-juveniles-execution-animation |
Language | English |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/84596
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