Context of practice : Paul Wells

During my time in Manchester animation festival I got a personal interview with Mr Paul Wells who helped me elaborate further the different genres of animation ( which ties in with my current Context of practice essay).  Its really interesting to hear from the author whose work had played such a major role in my studies, and even more interesting to hear he confessed that he would like to re-write his works in more simpler and easy-to -understand term, but that wouldn't sit well with the publisher. He helped me with my main request of explaining what the formal genre of animation is , with an answer that is short , straight-forward and very comprehensible : it is when animation ask the question " what is it that animation can do , that live action can not", such as telling a fairy tale, animation can bring in magic , can animate talking animals, that is something that real life can't . He further elaborate by giving examples in Cinderella (the animation I'm currently anylysing ) that Cinderella heself is animated very realistically and behave very human-like, whereas we have Gus, Jab and the mices, Lucifer the cat , not only animated in away that is very non-human, but even talking. Even more relevant to the topic is how Cinderella's dress and slippers is further "glamourized" by the animated "sparkling" effects to emphasise more on its beauty and desirability. Its qualities like those that forms the bases of the formal genre. Without a doubt , having a clearer image of this would significantly improve my understanding and is yet another source of reference for my current and future essays