Today we analyzed two animations.
In the first, "The Bombing of Candytown" we had a hard time nailing down a main character (probably because there wasn't one). However, we did a good job noticing that the airplanes were the most active characters and had an obvious goal: to bomb Candytown. They also made value shifts on the graph: being in the middle of the graph as they entered, going up when they killed Darth Vadar, going down when one of the planes is shot down, and finally going up when the last plane succeeds in destroying Candytown.
The other two candidates for main character were Chewbaca and Hello Kitty, who fall in love at the beginning, and Candytown itself. However, neither of these choices had a goal. So we discarded them.
In the second animation, "For Whom the Lunch Bell Tolls" we identified the students collectively as being the main character and the lunch ladies and the food they handed out as the antagonist. The students overcame the gross food by trading trays to get what they wanted.
However, we called the escalation into question. We decided that since the movie was trying to gross us out, the food placed on the trays should get progressively grosser. But we decided that grass is not grosser than a shoe, and that Barbie parts certainly aren't grosser than underwear. Thus, the progression of grossness was flawed.
But then we saw that the students ate their food in an escalating order of grossness that we felt was effective.
