Applied Animation: Persepolis

I have decided to research Persepolis because I came across this movie a while ago, but it was one the first things that popped into my head when we were briefed. From what I have gathered, the the best way to produce a good documentary is to make it personal and pick a topic most interesting to you. Persepolis isn't  a documentary but it is an autobiography so I'd still say that is relevant to my research.
  Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of the precocious and outspoken 9-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, Marjane outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA, and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.

The film is presented in the black-and-white style of the original graphic novels. Satrapi explains in a bonus feature on the DVD that this was so the place and the characters wouldn't look like foreigners in a foreign country but simply people in a country to show how easily a country can become like Iran. The present-day scenes are shown in color, while sections of the historic narrative resemble a shadow theater show. The design was created by art director and executive producer Marc Jousset. The animation is credited to the Perseprod studio and was created by two specialized studios, Je Suis Bien Content and Pumpkin 3D.

“You know, I learned something from Emir Kusturica. Two years ago he told me that everybody’s talking about the movies, about storytelling. But it’s not that, you know. It’s how you sell the story. You can have the most annoying subject, but if you know how to present it, if you have your own language, then it becomes something. And you can have the most incredible story, but if you make it in an annoying way, then it becomes annoying. So it’s really how you make it.” Santrapi M. (2012)