#sequential narrative

Callie from hell, chapter one: Prologue

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Brief 3 - Sequential Narrative

Final Outcomes 

The biggest hurdle I had to conquer during this project was to relay certain actions and events through a purely visual medium, it wasn’t so difficult to direct and lead a story per se but rather to convey actions and reactions with minimal to no text for context. 

I’ve been an avid reader of western comic books and eastern manga ever since the age of 12 so when it comes to composition i have an understanding of what may be necessary to include and what could possibly just be wasting time or overcooking the story; especially with the looming restrictions of only 8 images for the whole thing. When it came to the design of angles, frames, shots and mise en scène I have an extensive backlog of media knowledge so this aspect of the assignment came very easy to myself as well. If anything I had an overabundance of ideas when it came to the frames/panels.

The process consisted of simple pencil thumbnail sketches. Once I had those I moved onto pencilling the final images, inking, adding some high contrast shade with a highlighter and finally uploading and digitally editing before handing in.

Overall I’m pleased with my outcomes but a couple of the images I feel I can improve (both slightly and vastly). If I had given myself enough time post the completion I could have used this hindsight knowledge to improve them before deadline. 

Brief 3 - Sequential Narrative

The brief was that we would receive two rather different images by random. We would then have to create an additional 8 images to connect the two and in succession create a story/narrative that was comprehensible for an audience to understand without the assistance of words or anchoring text; a purely visual narrative.

I received the images of a rather regular looking golden retriever and two prehistoric mammals in combat. Well, aside from the fact that they are both animals, neither had much else in common with the other so I had to really brainstorm. From an outside perspective I can understand how I may have been perceived as a bit dazed or confused to where to take my narrative but in all honesty I had an overwhelming amount of rational and ridiculous stories running around and plaguing my mind.