Work: Style Guide

Hannah and I printed out lots of mood boards showing visual looks, colour pallets, character ideas, location ideas etc and pinned them up in our work are in the MA studio. We then annotated them noting down what we liked and why. With these notes we then created a Style Guide we would both use when designing the different aspects of Magicians Nephew- this would then create a coherent design style.

Mood Boards:
Style Ideas: bright colours, Style Ideas: Contrasting colours, Style Ideas: Single colours, Victorian Posters & Circus Visuals, Clockpunk, Biopunk, Steampunk, Deiselpunk, Final Fantasy, Polly & Digory, Stawbery the hourse, Uncle Andrew, Jadis the white witch, Aslan, The Jabberwocky, The Magicians Nephew, The Dream-quest of the Unknown Kadath.

Collaboration

It is now official that myself and Hannah Purdy (puppetryandhanimation.blogspot.com) will be collaborating to produce our final MA projects. We will be both be producing various elements for the design of The Magicians Nephew by C.S. Lewis.

My role will as Set Designer will involve producing:

Concept visuals/art
Set details
Technical Drawings (if required)
Models
In depth location research
Specific research into how the natural world can be used effectively to produce fantasy landscapes.
   

Hannah’s Role as Character Designer will involve producing:
Character Profiles
Character Line up
In depth character research
A selection of detailed character packages
   

We will also be sharing the responsibilities of:
Acting Production Designers
Having meetings
Production Organisation
Story Specific Research
Storyboarding
Logo Design
Visual Design/Style of the piece
Final Pitch/Presentation


We hope to submit a full Visual Treatment at the end of the year for the film.


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Mind Maps: Topics of study

To help develop a process of study I drew a quick mind map. It needs filling out a lot more but the general basics are there for my masters project.