Storyboard - Creating stories
Drawing within the frame
In this exercise I had to use a prompt to show different storyboard concepts. The prompt I chose was ‘Running away from a monster’. The concepts I used were contrast, depth and design of the shapes primarily. Contrast between the figure being large behind the smaller shaped cat at the front. Depth of the smaller one in the front being loomed over by the sinister cat. Design of the shapes of the claws being sharper compared to the round smaller cat.
This was a good use of three of the concepts but to emphasise on certain aspects to make it more impactful, such as making the weaker cat even smaller to make the contrast higher in the image.
Creating a narrative using a Moodboard
This was a group based task with being told to choose a certain fairy tale and create a Mood-board from that. I decided with my group to do Little ‘Red Riding Hood’. We started by looking up artists that could inspire the type of theme we would go for. Seeing a twisted version of Red riding hood we decided a grunge sort of series would be a good idea to start with. we used song lyrics to make a story where red has a lavish life however she gets bored and astral projects into another world where she teams up with the big bad wolf to do crimes. We added twists of a dark and weird/wonderful to the mix which is definitely what the story embodies.
If I were to do this task again I would add footnotes to be able to look back easily and understand the story plot, I would also add more locations as the story would be a series so more different scenery is required for each episode.
Overall thoughts
My overall thoughts on the first week is that it is developing my initial skills of storyboarding and helping me think more outside the box when creating mood boards as they are references that are very vital and need to be memorable when taking ideas and stories. They also have to be very clear and concise so it made me think more analytically rather than only aesthetically when making them.
