When this project was first introduced, I knew I wanted to use it as a way to practice more interactivity using flexbox and hover transitions. I also wanted to create a project talking about an event in the animation industry, and my initial idea was to talk about the shift in styles we’ve seen in movies with Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse and Mitchell and the Machines. However, my attention was turned to Twitter and the heavy controversy that had suddenly sparked because of the movie Turning Red. I drafted out the main points of the argument, that being family-friendliness and relatability, and then added two more for an introduction and conclusion. I decided to format the page as four different colored bars, each representing one of the main characters of Turning Red. I added a page for the concept as well, linking it with a small star icon in the corner. I proceeded to format the title page, and then each one of the four points linked from the navigation page. I hadn’t done any research at this point, so I only gave it the bare essentials, three divs for paragraphs and one image on each page. I added a hover effect to slightly saturate these divs for the added interactivity.

After I formatted each page, I moved onto the research. I found a few websites beforehand detailing the controversy around Turning Red that I could use for my research and argument, and then I compiled my information on a Google Doc, writing out each section and then finding out how to incorporate them into the formatting I had created. I tweaked each page as a saw fit, adding more paragraphs and images where I found needed. After doing this, I cited all of my sources into the list that you will see below!

Sheikh, Imaan. “News.” Twitter Thread Calls out Those Saying "Turning Red" Promotes Disobedience, Daily Hive, 15 Mar. 2022, https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/turning-red-twitter-thread-parents.

Shivaram, Deepa. “'Turning Red' Is a Turning Point for Asians in Film. Why Is It Seen as Unrelatable?” NPR, NPR, 12 Mar. 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/03/12/1086040083/turning-red-controversy.

“Turning Red Is for Everyone, Cast Says after Review Calls Film about Chinese-Canadian Girl Unrelatable | CBC News.” CBCnews, CBC/Radio Canada, 14 Mar. 2022, https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/turning-red-review-pulled-1.6377614.

Turning Red. Directed by Domee Shi. Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studio, 2022.