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With this brief I am with a team and we are using a nursery rhyme as the set up for the story.

Our nursery rhyme is : The Incy Wincy Spider.

The theme is : Drama.

The location is : 1940s - 1950s, nuclear times.

A quick picture of mouth shapes I made, called pheromones with the different shapes they make from different sounds of words.

Key Scenes/ Master shots

The first shot with the experiment in the dark room was chosen because I like the 3d affect of the lighting, the symmetry of it and also the inhumanity of it all.

The 2nd Key Scene is like an inverse of the previous one. The monster is free and in the daylight, finally having some hope, but is suddenly surrounded by guards, all facing their guns at it and it then realizing there is no escape.

The final Key Scene is the scientist walking down the hallway, so very stoically, and passing all the doors on his side, as he cares nothing for the creatures and experiments that are trapped and imprisoned in there.

Zine Book I made with Marieann on Monday.

We used the backgrounds I had drawn for some of the pages.

We also used Marieann's scientist designs and also made up colour pallets that we used in the storyboards and backgrounds.

We had gone to the Zine workshop that morning and were shown many ways these types of books were made. We looked at an example of how to fold up a piece of paper into a zine book, and that's what we did, using an A3 page size, and sticking our pieces into it before getting the page photocopied and with 5 new sheets of the page copied, we folded them up and shared them around our group of 4.

Remaining Backgrounds for Brief

The last three scenes of the sun rising in the desert, bringing upon a new day with a beautiful blue sky and sun beams beating down on the sand.

It is this moment in the story that the monster has escaped captivity and is seeing the world for the first time.

Backgrounds for Storyboards - 7 to 22

The many different angles throughout these backgrounds is to make the whole story look different and not repeating the same shots again and again. There are sometimes a shot of the hallway from the side, sometimes from above or from an angle. I just didn't want it to be the same always, as that could make it boring then.

The Backgrounds for Storyboards 1 - 6

Some rough Character design sketches for the Scientist and Guards/Soldiers.

I wanted to go against the grain with the scientist design here.

For the last two weeks we had been drawing the same type of black haired, thick glasses wearing scientist devoid of empathy and humanity... I just wanted to go with the opposite scientist stereotype and made him look like a crazy old man with Einstein hair.

I also wanted to make the soldiers look incompetent, and not all there in the head.

What we've posted on our Wall Space -

A mood sheet

Storyboards

Research

Different Character Designs done in the style of Iron Giant

Nevada is the the most mountainous state in America, and also the driest. It homes the huge city, Los Vegas, which gets millions of tourists each year.

The Mojave Desert is it’s biggest desert and it has many species uniquely evolved for that area.

Area 51 is hidden in the desert there, but many alien enthusiasts come every year to try and discover “The truth” about what’s out there.

Area 51 has almost extensively only been used for military uses, such as new technology and testing grounds for weaponry.

The desert around Area 51 covers a broad territory and in some parts, if you are seen entering restricted areas, you could get shot on sight.

Area 51 only really was established in the 1950s, to prepare the USA from attack of the Russians, during the time of the Cold War.

There has also been nuclear bomb tests in the area, and experiments on what radiation does to living creatures and the area it is exposed to.

The mountain range in Nevada keeps the rain away from it’s desert, as the mountains block the clouds like a shield, with plenty of rain on the opposite side, while leaving the desert dry.

The houses in the area have mostly flat roofs, as snow in Nevada is very unlikely. A lot of the houses in the 50s in Nevada were also bungalow, as that helped to keep the homes cool, without losing too much excessive heat.

The sky is usually bright blue with a hot sun, as clouds are rarely around the desert areas.

Nevada is actually one of the least populated areas in the USA, even in the 50s when it began to get noticed for its interesting “activities” in it’s military bases.

There’s also an abundant of cacti in the Mojave Desert, and many giant red stoned rocks spread around the sandy desert as well.

Research on the Mojave Desert, and on 50s military wear

The Joshua Tree is a very common plant seen in the Mojave desert. It was named that by the Mormon's, after the prophet Joshua from the bible. The tree can live for up to 150 years.

Next is the California Cleome "Bladderpod" yellow flower. Its an evergreen mountain vegetation found near California and also in the Mojave Desert.

The Mojave Desert is also home to many shrubbery and cacti. The skies are generally always blue, and the area gets very little rain, if any at all sometimes.