The "Red" story is set in a desert wasteland as already evidenced, but there re more areas that will be seen within the tale. With that in mind there was a need to research different environments. For this I used the internet, specifically Pinterest.
Below are collections of different environments that would appear in the tale:
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Desert on Pinterest.
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Lake on Pinterest.
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Woodland on Pinterest.
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Lagoon on Pinterest.
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Neda Waterfall on Pinterest.
Following this I decided to give some thought to the two main characters in the story, Alison and Red. Alison, I had already based on Ellen Page but felt that more research into her appearance would be beneficial to my work. Red however, needed to be a physically strong female, and I didn't really know of many strong females in that regard. However following a bit of investigation I discovered Christmas Abbott, an Olympic Athlete and CrossFit enthusiast, who largely fit the requirements for Red's character.
Here are the Pinterest boards I made for the two:
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Juno on Pinterest.
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Christmas Abbott on Pinterest.
With this visual research in mind, I can now move forward developing my story.
23/06/2015
19/06/2015
EP Prep: Initial Summer Idea
With Level 5 now over, I have some time to play around with ideas that have been floating around in my head for the last year. The most promising of these being the "Red" story that I began developing last summer and attempted to push forward with in OUIL505 before being advised that it wouldn't suit the module.
The story, influenced by Hester Pryne - the heroine of the Scarlett Letter, is about a girl, exiled from her home into a desert wasteland, where she must find a way to survive. There she meets the character of Red who is a suitably strong female role model for the girl.
Over the past few days I've been working on the initial pages. It's important here to discuss a point from my Level 5 Presentation in regards to the digital work I have been creating recently. Whilst I am happy with the process, I feel that there is room for more analogue work to take place. To succeed in moving away from digital I made a choice to play with inks and create a few textures for my story beforehand.
After this I used a process of collaging images sourced from the internet in Photoshop. These images were then traced over to create a narrative story and printed out to ink over with fine liner.
The line work, along with the textures I had created were then scanned in and put together before being coloured digitally. I am happy with the outcome, however there is clearly room for improvement, which hopefully will come from more experience with this process.
Here is the process of development and the final outcomes:
I feel that there is a future in this story and it could potentially be sold at Thought Bubble in November.
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