The first storyboard intended to be more abstract inspired by botanical shapes where everything would be symbolized to go along Elizabeth Acevedo’s voice. Throughout the making of Black Behind the Ear the visualization of the story along with its animation style changed from what was planned at the beginning.
It hopes to change “Black Behind the Ear” from an insult to a prideful descriptor, giving the audience an uplifting perspective of themselves. This project embraces heritage rather than ignore it. The concept of this project was born from this phrase. The poem became so influential that the title of the poem became a colloquialism meaning someone with the black behind its ear means that has an African ancestry but hides it. In 1833, one of the most well-known Dominican poet Juan Antonio Alix wrote the poem “El negro detrás de la oreja”.
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