Visual Narratives

On Wednesday (our first day back after Christmas) we had a day in the studio where we talked about all the things were going to need to have ready for our tutorials on Monday. 

TO DO: (for the picture book)
- storyboard
- pages of artwork 
- plans with what direction I'm taking it in
- some vague idea of whether I'm doing a concertina or saddle-stitch book

Phew, thats actually a lot less things than I thought.

To prepare ourselves for storyboarding our own picture books, we made a storyboard of a film of our choice in the studio and had to get other people the guess what it was.

Mine was Scream (obviously). Now I realise it would have been a lot less obvious at first if I hadn't used words or the iconic scream mask but it has given me an idea how simplistic things can be and still be considered a storyboard. These sketches literally took no time but I guess the point of it is just to establish the plot of each page and where certain elements will be within the frame, a bit like the handout we looked at that talked about composition. 

We also tried to make our own concertina books in groups and my group did this cute book with a string of sausage dogs going across all the pages. I actually had no idea how difficult it would be to make a successful concertina book, but it turns out its very hard. Considering this is the method I can definitely see myself doing because I like the continuation of it, and the possibility to view it as one long story or each page individually, I payed a lot of attention to the do's and don'ts:

Do:

- use good quality paper

- take time when putting it all together to get all the pages straight

- maybe use a clamp to help dry the pages flat

Don't:

- stick the paper to the wrong page of the book

Heres our finished book:

Moving forward:
- I need to plan my weekend coming up to make sure I'm ready for the tutorial
- get my storyboard done
- pages of artwork done
- BLOG IT