After looking through both websites of briefs I have decided to go with the brief called 'Motion Picture' on the RCA website. The brief wants me to choose one speech between two and then make a animation to create a visualisation that goes with it. I have chosen the speech made for the NHS that is designed to make people think about the definition of 'health'.
NHS's Speech
My first impression and initial ideas after reading the speech for the first time was I wanted to include a scene where people are gathering more people to create a community and show them helping each other, mainly because the points Nathalie make resolve heavily around people coming together to support each other.
Wales between 1920 - 1944
In the 1920s depression hit Wales resulting in wages being cut and mines closing. Before the NHS, health care was aimed at families who were wealthy and were living in the upper class of society and because of the wage cuts people in the lower class couldn't afford any health care. The majority of people in the lower class society worked in the mines a huge cause for illness and sickness for workers but now because of wage cuts they couldn't afford the medical attention they needed. In 1944 the minister of health Aneurin Bevan saw that something must be done as he also worked in the mines before being elected into parliament so he forced through legalisation to provide health care for people in citizenship instead of their class and wealth.
This was one of the first signs of what the NHS stands for today and I would like to represent this as a mine cart in my final animation.
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