#character blocking study

Film study of Chris Nolan's Batman Begins, (and a tidbit of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class at the top) by painstakingly pause-play-pausing my DVD player constantly for hours on end before my body crashed. 

Kick-started by my intrigue of XMFC’s scene where Charles Xavier is aiming a gun at his friend's face: you're thrown into the scene with a half-gun, half-blacked-out screen, which pans out to show Charles, but you don't know what's happening at all. So I thought sketching all of this down for future reference was probably a good idea (ha ha). The screen-splitting was pretty cool, so I thought about drawing it as panels of a manga. It was already similar in storytelling so it wasn't that hard, but when I decided to try Batman's whole opening sequence with Bruce's flashback to his childhood, I got really into it.

I wasn't thinking of how I was going to do it at first, I just wanted to get compositions down but while I was working, I gradually got the hang of camera movements for Nolan's and Vaughn's style; I attempted to make the layout like a huge heavy manga page.