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Lizbeth and Francesca discuss the joys and struggles of having a child with disabilities.

Animation by 2nd year students Animation and Illustration BA (Hons) at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Project Manager: Emma Cascarina. Art Director: Joana Pinto. Character Design: Rhode Brussee. Backgrounds/Character Design: Rosie Dore

What the animators say about this conversation:
After listening to all of the available Listening Project podcasts, we decided upon ‘Puzzle Pieces’ as a group; we thought the subject matter was interesting and inspiring, and that the dialogue of the two speakers was one that would lend itself well to animation, particularly in the way that the two parents described their children in ways both literal and metaphorical that could easily be translated into a visual piece.

The themes of contrast and harmony were among those we especially wanted to focus on after listening to the audio, both in the differences between the two speakers’ children but also in the changes of mood and tone—from the first speaker’s honest, more sombre account of her own feelings as a parent of a child with a disability, to the second speaker’s portrayal of the two children’s strengths and unique personal attributes—ending in a satisfying and
uplifting metaphorical comparison of the children being like ‘puzzle pieces’, both different and yet complementary to one another.

We hoped to convey these themes in use of colour, pattern, movement and visual metaphor, choosing select spoken passages that we felt best captured the essence of the overall audio within the given timeframe of the animation, working together across different media to produce a result that would display the intended message and atmosphere that we wanted to convey in our final animation.

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