For my thesis I want to compose a film piece with a comic companion piece. This would mean that I would be creating a film, and then drawing the panels and deciding the composition after the film is completed. This would be in contrast to the normal process, which usually consists of the comic being done first. I feel like this process will give me the model lie quality that accompanies realistically drawn figures and settings.
The piece would be heavily narrative and would consist of being roughly a post- apocalyptic western. I am also planning on using my brother’s band to compose a multitude of original pieces to provide a strong score. Seeing as how this is very typical of the spaghetti westerns that I am trying to emulate, this will be a satisfying and appropriate measure. I will also be attempting to do all special effects in camera and desperately avoid using any after effects. I feel that this will aid in the homemade, gritty feel that I would like to shoot for.
The palette that I want to incorporate would be that of organic tones, like green, grays, reds, yellows and browns in order to emphasize the feel of natures overpowering force. This palette will also give the feel of the seasons and how they affect the environment outside, as well as how people begin to act through them. I feel that this composition will also be easily transferable to the pencil gradient that I will be doing the graphic work in.
All in all I feel that the film and comic media allow for an easy transfer from page to picture screen. The easy thing about the transfer is that the shots can be easily transferred to panels. This could be viewed as being backwards to the normal process, seeing as how it would look like I am using the shots as a story board for the comic but in actuality I would like to use simple panels to compose the shots and then transfer it beck to the page when I have lined up my reference (the shot that is). This process will be tedious and will probable get repetitive, but such usually the case in drawing and film, so this will be nothing new.
And here is another comic that I had worked on for my Graphic Narrative class. it is a demonstration of a simple anecdote. I wanted to mess around with the subtleties of pencil vs. pen vs. ink and some stuff in between. I was really pleased with the way the animals were rendered, not only in the close -ups (which is usually easier to accomplish) but also at a distance. All in all I was very pleased with this work and was happy with this homage to Fantasia's Rite of Spring segment.
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