Adaptation B: The facts

The statistics of mental health and depression is quite shocking, I have gathered all of my research to talk about during the infographic. With this information I can structure my script.

• 1 in 6 people will through the course of their lives will suffer from depression.
• 1 in 4 woman will suffer from depression
• Woman are twice as likely to suffer from mental health as men
• Woman are more likely to suffer from anxiety as men
• Woman are more likely to be treated for depression, this is due to woman admitting to problems and symptoms compared to men.
• Men are more likely to suffer from a drug or alcohol addiction/problem.
• 1 in 10 people in prison DO NOT suffer from a mental health disorder.
• 1 in 20 is clinically depressed meaning major depression
• 1 in 50 British people can suffer from a form of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder

Symptoms of SAD

• Poor Concentration
• Low in mood
• Cravings for carbohydrates
• Social "phobia" (Don't want to see people, can't be bothered to be social, wants to be isolated)
• Lethargic
• Physical pain: Stomach/joints
• Behavior problems: Cross, short tempered, moody (More for children)

healthline.com

Mind.com

Mentalhealth.org.uk

Adaptation B: Character thoughts

I wanted to go with a teenage girl look, as depression is common in woman and aged 15-24 i felt it fitting, my first initial thought was this, a fringed, long haired girl with glasses.

I want to develop this character

Adaptation B: Script demo

SAD

Adaptation B: Ideas

Idea 1

I want to go for a hand drawn child-like style for this one, the point of the infographic would be to explain depression through a childs understanding, making the subject innocent and more intense. The information would be correct and spoken by children. Here are a few examples of the style I would push for.

Idea 2

This idea was to go for a single point focus, I want to morph a singular shape into items, faces, thigns that explain depression and the stages. This wont have speech but music, I want this to come across as infographic twist with a visual music piece.

Disruptive Innovation Festival from James Curran on Vimeo.

Virgin Media Cycle Slam from James Curran on Vimeo.

The Adventures of Tintin from James Curran on Vimeo.

Idea 3

This idea will be all ages talking to the camera, I want a young child to OAP to speak about the stages of depression, and the subject get increasingly worse as the piece continues, this isnt so much an "infographic" as an animation of people talking but It will be twisted into one.

Idea 4

Similar to ideas 1 and 3, I want to animate over children speaking, partly animation, partly live.

Adaptation B: Art styles and research

After my tutorial with Alan we spoke about making the infographic focus on one item such as a circle or a square, as well as possibly looking into children talking about mental health, there understanding to bring an innocence to the topic and in some cases a small ability to relate as our knowledge on mental health could be not that much better than a child's.

Firstly I looked up some 3D singular object based inforgraphics, including The Forest by Sasha Milic that Alan advised.

The Adventures of Tintin from James Curran on Vimeo.

Isometric Infographics from NERDO on Vimeo.

The Forest from Sasha Milic on Vimeo.

Next, I looked at animations as well as infographics with children speaking and including their knowledge on the topic of the animation.

Adaptation B: Mental Health research

For my infographic I chose to base it on Mental Health, understanding a specific disorder for common people to understand others with my chosen disorder. After speaking with Alan, he advised I spoke to MIND.

I contacted Mind to figure out the most commonly miss-understood and popular mental health disorder, I am awaiting my reply but I am looking at depression. I looked onto Mind's website to look at the information they had and found this.

Since there are different types of depression, I have chosen to look more in to one rather than different ones, but this could change regarding Mind's reply.

Adaptation B: Ideas

I want to create the style of an infographic telling a story, and going wrong, The infographic will tell the process and steps of a topic, but take the viewer through the mind of the person experiencing it, for example, It's Such A Beautiful Day. An animated film made in 2012 has given me the inspiration of how i want my infographic to start loosing itself.

Possible ideas i want to do are:

• The pressures of growing up - Puberty and thinking about having to survive on ones own
• The growing popularity of technology and how it is taking over
• Fears - such as fears of flying, the break down cycle of how a fear takes over a person.
• Mental/ mind disorders.

I want the infographic to have 3D elements, here some examples:

bvt 3d animated infographics from AF66 on Vimeo.

Freeband | The Ambient Life from PlusOne on Vimeo.