Dynamic Communication

For my story I want to go for a Roman era style. It will be inspired be the series Spartacus and the movie 300. I'm choosing this style as it will work really well for the ideas I have in my head at this point in time, e.g. the slow motion parts where the objects within the scene aren't moving but the camera is, that is what I want to do (however I will simply have 2D images but with different objects moving at different speeds to show depth)

Above is a mood board of images from Spartacus and 300 as this is the style I am wanting to go for.

Here are some You Tube links to show where my inspiration has come from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Sh9ZEonBtfk#t=15s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89E0dAUeHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JssUoIEAyuY#t=14s
Note: Just this style of camera movement where the objects within the scene don't move

Flour Sack Digital Storyboard

I did want to add this to my disc, however I was not able to because the computer would not allow me to remove anything from my disc and the computer would also not even register any other disc I attempted to use instead. So this is my digital storyboard for each individual scene in my animation. Sorry for the inconveniance.





Visual Literacy Final Pieces

Task 1

Happy:

 Urban:

Vintage:

 Help:

Task 2

Character:

Environment:

Vis Lit: Task 2

For my second task in Vis Lit I had to find a piece of text and come up with a character and an environment for that piece of text. The text I picked was the song Fallen Leaves by Billy Talent. I think this song is relating the fallen leaves to those who have fallen from grace, due to drug addiction (it is definitely somewhat about drugs). "Fallen leaves on the ground" refers to the addicts and how they started off healthy at the top of tree and began to fall when they got addicted, slowly dying, just as leaves do when they fall to the ground.


My first image, the character, is meant to symbolise the fall from grace. On the left is what could have been, a well respected successful man and on the right is the fallen, a drug addicted waster. The skin is purposely more of a grey colour on the right to show the lack of good health and the fact he is dying. The background also has meaning, it represents, on the left, a nice pure blue which fades into a dark scummy green over the addicts side.

The second image is my environment. It is made to look like a dark and dingy area where you would associate drug addicts and degenerates to hang out.