narrative
illustration assignment 2
weighting 60% due date week 15 11/06/2013
In
the first assignment you examined some definitions of what illustration is and
does, and some concepts associated with illustration genres and narrative. After this you selected media conventions and
explored the use of these ideas in types of formats. This second assignment
allows you to extend this exploration, so you will be analyzing, relevant genres,
audiences and experimenting with how a narrative can be organized, but this
assignment gives you greater freedom over the choice of narrative and format. You
may choose to develop more work in the same genre or style you identified to
explore in the first assignment where you made a specific examination of sequential
visual narrative as a convention within contemporary illustration producing,
- Story books
- Comics
- Graphic novels
Or you may explore different approaches to
narrative and formats.
Consider the following possibilities,
- Games
- A series of political
caricatures for a publication
- A series of
illustrations for a public
relations campaigned
- A series of
illustrations for packaging
concepts that develop a character or narrative for a product
- Illustrations for a clothing
brand that explore a sequential narrative or theme
- Illustrations that
explore a narrative or theme for an event
- Illustrations which
explore visual concepts and narrative for a product e.g. snowboards
- A series of
illustrations that compliment an educational idea.
Irrespective of the concept you select
to explore, good illustration is illustration which,
·
demonstrates
a knowledge and control of selected media conventions, genres and techniques.
·
demonstrates
a considered relationship between visual content and informational/textual
content
·
demonstrates
a considered relationship between visual content and a specific audience.
·
demonstrates
an innovative use of media, technique and genre
Procedure
- Identify a narrative
concept that can be adapted in as a visual narrative.
- Identify a specific
genre of representation and a media convention that you want to explore in
this project.
- Conduct a media
convention analysis of this content.
- Identify current
illustrators who are using these genres of representation and media
conventions.
- Identify a format for
the exploration of content e.g. children’s book, graphic novel,
comic, ed text book, manual,
culinary book, games, political
caricatures for a publication, a series of illustrations for a public relations campaigned, packaging
concepts that develop a character or narrative for a product,
Illustrations for clothing brand that explore a sequential narrative or
theme, Illustrations that explore a narrative or theme for an event,
Illustrations which explore visual concepts and narrative for a product, a
series of illustrations that compliment an educational idea.
- Complete audience
analysis exercise
- Identify the most
suitable narrative for development and
develop a visual beat-script or an equivalent method for the
organizing of content
- Experiment with
framing sequences and transitions or other methods fro the management of
narrative and concept hierarchy
- Experiment with the
application of; - Genre and Media conventions
- P.O.V
- hierarchy
and narrative sequence
- Image/text relationships
- Typography
- General layout
- Complete refinement
exercise and develop a refinement strategy and develop finished art.
- Prepare digital
documents to prepress print standard
- Submit final outcomes
and support research
( any undertake task one if it relates to your project)
World and Character :task one
As
an illustrator you generally begin with some understanding of the media genre
that you are dealing with and will use to develop a visual narrative. Once you have established clearly the type of
genre you will be using in a narrative, the type of audience you will be
dealing with and the format most likely to be used for publication of the work,
you can begin examining strategies for the improvement of the profile of the
character and the setting that the characters will occupied in the text.
Character profiling
In
order to develop a textual depth to the character's personality and visual
appearance it is important to develop some sense of the characters prior
experience in order to build a three-dimensional psychologically believable
image. This approach is commonly used by
screen-writers or authors and is referred to as the development of the
characters back-story. You can develop
the profile of the character by adapting a character from another fictional
context or by developing an observed personality from real-life. I have included a questionnaire for you to
fill out, it may seem irrelevant to begin with, but the detail that you think
about in this process has a way of influencing your visualisation and later
media exploration. Use the following
questionnaire to build a profile of each of your main characters.
Character Questionnaire
What's
the character's name?
Does
this name have a meaning or history?
Do
they have a nickname?
What
is the origin of this name?
What's
the date of the characters birth?
Physical appearance
how
old does the character appear ?
What's
the eye colour?
What's
the weight?
What's
their skin tone like and what's their skin type ?
Do
they have any distinguishing marks?
Predominant
features?
Type of body?
Shape
of face?
hair
colour?
Is
the character healthy?
Do
they have any physical disabilities?
What
kind of clothes that they wear?
Attitudes and beliefs
Is
the character cautious?
Is
the character flamboyant?
Are
they socially gregarious? Or shy?
What
are the characters priorities?
What's
the character's philosophy of life? Do
they have a religious belief?
How
you feel about themselves?
Do they have any psychological
vulnerabilities?
Mental
illnesses? Obsessive compulsive
disorders? Phobias?
Are
they happy with their current situation?
Satisfied
or dissatisfied?
Are
they resentful of life or other people who have done better than themselves?
Has their psychological experience affected
their physical appearance?
Current situation
What's
the characters current situation like?
Are
they currently in a relationship with another?
Do they have any children?
Where
do they live? Are they happy with this
situation?
Are
they working? Did they have close
friends?
Sidekicks? Are they a dominant or subservient
personality?
Do
they drive a vehicle? Live in a
particular house?
Background
where
were they brought up?
Do
they come from a small town or big-city?
What
was their family life like a child?
What
was their financial status like?
Whether
any formative psychological or social experiences in the early part of their
lives?
Do
they have any siblings?
But
they part of a functional or dysfunctional family?
What
was their birth order?
This
analysis should give you a really good idea of the visual attributes of your character. At this point it can also be useful if used
photography to formulate a visual idea of exactly how you character may look.
The characters world
The
genre at times dictates certain physical features about environments, but at
other times you need to have a strategy which allows you to research and
prioritise various types of physical qualities and the characters setting.
I've
provided a questionnaire for you to fill out in order that she might develop a
textually rich and believable world or setting for your characters.
The world
where
is this environment?
Is
this a normal human world? Or a
fantastic context?
What
era is this?
Is
this the future of the past? Or hybrid
time zone?
What's
the architecture like in this context?
Is it futuristic or historical?
What
type of technology exists in this context?
Is
there a specific atmosphere in this environment?
Are
there any characteristic natural phenomena in this environment?
Is
this world spatially similar to our world or as a distorted?
Are
there any unusual animals or creatures in this context?
Is
the environment governed by the same physical laws as our physical world?
Gathering
a collection of relevant photographic material that relates to the physical
environment is an invaluable tool for any illustrator developing pictorial
information about environmental world.
These images can be treated in conjunction with the specific media
convention which interprets them, but they are of indisputable significance as
background material for the generation of creative ideas which have a textural
significance to the narrative.
Use
these to strategic tools to build some contextually relevant back-story to your
new project
Media convention analysis: task two
Because
people have such a lot of trouble understanding what genres are, in media
studies we sometimes use the term media convention to describes
the genre or style work in illustration. This means explicitly the formal
features of the work, how it looks, and some of the common themes that are
associated with this convention. Whenever we talk about values in media
analysis where referring to the priorities that makers and users, in this case
illustrators and the audiences, apply to the judgement of a performance or
production. So keep these two ideas in mind when you undertake following task.
·
What are the stylistic features of the media
convention you are examining in this project?
·
What are the common themes associated with
this style or convention of work?
·
What are the common audiences associated with
this type of work?
·
What do illustrators and the audiences who
used this type of work value and work of this nature?
·
What stylistic features of this media
convention can you adapt in your project?
Audience analysis: task three
·
Identify
your ideal audience, write a brief hypothetical profile which describes them
e.g. consider age gender, ethnicity etc.
·
Describe the tone of your address to this
audience e.g. irony, humour, sincerity.
·
Consider the relationship between your
audience and your media convention, is this the best relationship? Give reasons why this is so.
·
Describe the context in which your work will
be received, does the context dictate additional limitations or possibilities
for the reception of your work?
·
Describe the tone of your address to this
audience, e.g. irony, humour, sincerity etc
Format/Distribution strategy analysis : task four
·
Identify a format for the exploration of
content (e.g. children’s book, graphic
novel, comic, ed text book, manual,
culinary book, etc)
·
analyse the conventions associated with a
particular format you are exploring e.g. graphic novel, zine, product pamphlet
etc
·
find some examples of work produced in a
similar way to your proposal.
Refinement strategy: task five
As you are approaching the final few weeks of practice,
it is important that you develop a refinement rationale to support the final
development of work leading up to the final submission and assessment. There are specific criteria in the brief
which referred to the development of a refinement strategy and this strategy
should be a summary of following points;
·
Review your contextual research and identify
any improvements that could be made this
documentation
·
Review your current media experimentation and
identify the most successful outcomes to date.
·
Identified at least two variables from these
experiments that could be further extended over the course of the following
weeks and write a strategy for the exploration of these issues.
·
Draft a specific statement which clearly
identifies the final series of work you will be developing in this project.
narrative illustration assignment 2 formative assessment
11/06/2013
due week15 weighting 60%
Assessment procedure
Assessment
will be graded in reference to the following criteria. Analyze the student’s
performance and award a grade for each area of inquiry A B C D write a generic
comment and an overall grade which summarizes the overall performance.
How
successfully has the student:
· Identify and explored a range of narrative concepts
within an illustration
context.
·
Identify
a specific media convention and explored these concepts in media
·
Completed
contextual tasks 1-5 and documented your reflections on
research questions.
·
Develop
a series of experiments which test media convention , audience, format
and formal variables
·
Developed finished artwork and prepress
documents
·
Developed outcomes consistent with research
hours
Write a generic
concept which accounts for the quality of the students performance and award a final grade
No comments:
Post a Comment