Title: How to Transfer Faithful Life Skills to Children in Television Animations with a Case Study of the Faithful Life Skills Series
Student: Bahman Vermzyar Najafi
Advisor: Abdullah Mottaghipour
University: Faculty of Religion and Media
Degree: Master’s
Major: TV Production
Defense Date: 1397/7/18
Abstract:
The main purpose of this research is to understand how to transfer faithful life skills to children in television animations. In addition to the documentary method, qualitative content analysis with a semiotic approach has also been used in this research.
To properly and correctly transfer faithful life skills to children, paying attention to three steps is necessary. The first step is to explain and understand faithful life skills along with their examples, provided they are simple and free from abstract concepts, which can serve as the initial foundation for starting the journey. In the next step, attention should be paid to the specific capacity and features that animations, especially computer animations, possess, including an emphasis on exaggeration, imagination, fantasy, symbolic expression, brevity, attention to humor, personification of non-humans, the use of music that attracts children, the appropriate combined use of live-action and animation films, and creating an engaging visual atmosphere. These features make animations highly attractive and engaging for children and leave an impact on them. In the third step, the issue of animation content is a very sensitive and important point. Among the topics that must be observed in the story content and narration are: simplicity and being unpretentious, using a hero and main character around whom the story’s power is centered, using simple materials and allegories, utilizing educational methods that make the story easy to understand, emphasizing sensory and objective learning, conveying the main theme as shortly and quickly as possible, avoiding a bitter and anti-joy atmosphere, avoiding complex and difficult concepts, avoiding superstition and deviant beliefs, presenting stories based on Iranian-Islamic cultural and traditional contexts, and benefiting from the repetition of concepts with various examples…
Overall, it can be said that observing the mentioned three steps is a strategy for transferring faithful skills to children, and the impact of television animations on children shows that in order to use animations for education, various sciences in the field of program production must be applied. Special attention to strategic research in the field of animation can be a good guide for designing a pattern to be used by relevant creators and managers.
