Cross dissolve to second title card. I spend much of mu first day of production figuring out the aspect ratio to be used for the film. Adobe Premiere Pro had to have this aspect ratio and I made a blank fame of future storyboards. Black and white was the theme from the start. The oral history is a bit over three minutes long which is an eternity of work if you are doing frame by fram animation. There are 24 frames per second for most traditional animated films so that was the frame rate that I am using moving forward. Three minutes means about 4,300 individual drawings for smooth animation. I am finding various ways to streamline the production workflow. For instance storyboards double as the lay outs for each scene.
This film is going to be shown at an exhibition titled Yesterday This as Home, at the Orange County Regional History Center. This special exhibition on display October 3, 2020 – February 14, 2021.
The 1920 Ocoee Massacre in Orange County, Florida, remains the largest incident of voting-day violence in United States history. Events unfolded on Election Day 1920, when Mose Norman, a black U.S. citizen, attempted to exercise his legal right to vote in Ocoee and was turned away from the polls. That evening, a mob of armed white men came to the home of his friend, July Perry, in an effort to locate Norman. Shooting ensued. Perry was captured and eventually lynched. An unknown number of African American citizens were murdered, and their homes and community were burned to the ground. Most of the black population of Ocoee fled, never to return.
This landmark exhibition by the Orange County Regional History Center will mark the 100-year remembrance of the Ocoee Massacre. The exhibition will explore not only this horrific time in our community’s history but also historical and recent incidents of racism, hatred, and terror, some right here at home.
The content will encourage reflection on a century of social transformation, the power of perspective, and the importance of exercising the right to vote, and will ask what lessons history can inspire for moving forward.