Narrative: Giant Steps OGR

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- Hannah

- The Team

Prop Idea's

Playing around with idea's of what few props we have in the film, I was trying to think of fun alien versions of each of the Props featured in the story.

Brad.

Character Design Progress Thus Far.

I feel like we've made good progress with the character designs for our film, and the consensus amongst the team is approval positive reactions to them so far.

Astronaut Girl.

First Thumbnails

Developed Thumbnails.

Near Final Concept

Colour Tests

Astronaut Boy

Thumbnails/Idea's

Near Final Concept

Colour Tests

Protagonists

Aliens

Developed Thumbnails

Near Final Designs, Colour Tests.

Brad.

Astronaut Girl, Initial Concepts and Influence.

For the design of our main character in her imaginary astronaut outfit I looked at retro space suits to fit with the 1960's motif in our film.

Arguably one of the most Iconic would be the mercury space suit used for high altitude test flights. But I have also included stylised helmets and fictional ones as this would have an influence on a child's design.

From there I did some rough sketches, you can see my progression as I got a better idea of how I wanted the proportions,

And here are some more final idea's, I drew these with a different brush and method to experiment with style.

Brad.

Heros Journey - Story develpoment

For the heros Journey project we have been set a conflict of 'Man vs Universe' with a quote to define the end of the story being "For a second her mind was empty; then all that she had forgotten came rushing back at once." We used these two factors along with our genre of 'Romance' to create two story ideas which we find are both strong ideas and could work well with creating our story.

1st idea - First day of school 

For our first idea we came up with a girls first day at a new school. This day would take place under the girls perspective of everything being alien to her. The school would be on another planet and all of the pupils will be aliens. The day will go badly with people thinking she's weird being the new kid and in her perspective the only human, being laughed at by other students for wearing her space suit and space helmet. During the day she ends up meeting another space man who defends her from bullies. She then spends time with the other space man and when she is about to show her face to the spaceman by taking her helmet off she hears a bell and she wakes up from a day dream and has been sitting in her mums car the whole time day dreaming because how worried she was about her first day.

2nd idea - Lunch time imagination 

This idea is about a girl who is at lunch time at school. Like this first idea this takes place under the main characters prespective. She is by herself playing astronaught, she imagines she's on a different planet with different gravity so she is jumping around and sees a group of aliens. She jumps over to the aliens who are playing football, she tries to join in but kicks the football miles away because of the gravity. The aliens then start taunting her and being mean to her. Another astronaught comes over and defends her from the aliens bullying her. They then play together throwing rocks into space and jumping around. A loud bell goes and everything fades back to reality, lunch time is over and the girl and boy walk back into school holding hands.

Ian Garling - Director, 

                     Screenwriter,

                     Story board artist,

                     Cinematographer,

                     Rigger 

            

Logo Design Process

Once the group came up with a name for our studio, and set about designing the logo.

I went through many iterations and the team and I bounced around many idea's and gave feedback on changes, until eventually we got the final design.

"Looks too much like the fantastic 4 logo"

I started off with some simple ideas and then fed back to the group, which we discussed and developed into more ideas and variations  

We decided that the compass style idea had been used too many times before, so we decided to stay away from this idea and continue to develop the logo. 

I eventually tried working in a skull in to the design after a suggestion from the group. I felt like the side of the skull didn't really look that great, so started to look at it from the front.

The group and I really liked the skull idea, so then looked at how we could incorporate the name into the logo. We looked at how the teeth could could be letters that look like teeth.

So once coming up with the rough ideas we spoke as a group to then see how we could develop this to become out final design.

The four final thumbnails.

So this are final designs for our logo. I have created the logo in three different colours. The two monochrome logos are just generic one with we can use universally throughout our work. And the colour logo is for promotional use.

- Brad