Luke asked us to send him the subject of our choice, I think I am more inclined to do animation at the moment,and his reply was

Hi Lowe, I like your idea for your FMP and Thesis research. I think your thesis idea could do with a bit more development as to how you will research metaphor within animation. It is a well defined area of animation already so I feel like we could adjust this to be a bit more unique for your thesis. One way you could do this would be to maybe focus more on metaphorical story development and perhaps have the title of your thesis be “Metaphorical story development and its manipulated impact on an audience”. This title opens it up so you can look at the various different ways of implementing metaphor in to a short film. You can go in to character design, environment design, metaphorical dialogue, how metaphors are interpreted by different cultures and their translation across the world, followed finally by summing up the manipulation of metaphor to impact the audience member.
I hope this helps”

I think Luke’s suggestion is very useful and pointed me in the direction that needs to be demonstrated.

So the title of my thesis is determined as “Metaphorical story development and its manipulated impact on an audience”

I will write from several aspects: character design, environment design, metaphorical dialogue, metaphor and world-wide translation.

The next step is to start looking for examples, read and watch the video to support the argument.