Rastman Final Image: 2

This image depicts the second stage of my story, where the Doll feels for Rastaman and decides to present him with a flyer advertising the Path to Enlightenment. It is a over the shoulder view however, some of my peers did not at first understand this concept and mistook his head for something else. I found it quite hard to create a high level of drama in this scene as the props are was working with were quite mundane. Although, by creating blurred areas I was able to highlight the main message of the image, which in turn uplifted the drama, I feel.

Final Rastaman 6 Film Stills

These 6 images are my final visual embodiments of the Rastaman story I presented in my sketch book in my previous post. They are layout here like a comic book would be. I'm overall quite proud of my final 6 images. However, in the last image there is a goat slowly disappearing, which isn't very clear at all.

Storyboard Development: Rastaman

This is my developed idea of the 6 still images of my Rastaman storyboard. In this version Rastaman lies on the floor of his apartment after he OD's on cocain because his wife left him for a Doll. The Doll then feels as though she needs to do something to help Rastaman and presents him with a flyer, which advertises 'The Path to Enlightenment' -  a course up a mountain that offers enlightenment at the summit. Rastaman contemplate the idea and decides to go. However, when he reaches the mountain he finds that it is covered in cocain instead of snow and he must resist temptation in order to reach enlightenment. As he climbs the mountain he can no longer resist the drug and ends up OD'ing and collapsing. Rastaman awakens hours later, weak, to see the blurred outline of a goat in front of him. He grabs onto the goat in hopes that he will drag him to safety. The goat then drags Rastaman to the top of the mountain where he finds enlightenment and it is revealed to him that the goat was a hallucination that symbolised the strength of his own will power. 

Storyboard Idea: Cat Vs Wasp

This story flows from top to bottom.

1) There are two cats who are friends and a wasp and spider who are friends, living in the park. However, the two groups are enemies. 2) One day one of the cats squashes the spider and it dies. 3) The wasp goes back to his tree and plots revenge. 4) The wasp charges at the cats ready to sting them with poison. 5) The cat squashed the wasp and killed it, as a little girl obsessed with hello kitty walks by. 6) The girl spots the cat and steals it to make her very own live hello kitty, leaving the other cat to live alone.

This story is basically an example of the saying "what goes around, comes around". The cats were heartless towards the lives of the wasp and spider and in the end they were forced to live alone or as a play thing. I feel like the story isn't as strong as the previous two and is also quite childish, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just not what I was aiming for. 

Storyboard Idea: No Face

This story flows from bottom to top.

1) No Face is living in the black obis of the ocean, but decides to venture out onto land to share his poetry. 2) No Face meets a man on the beach who tells him how good his poems are and that he could sell them for him. 3) The man on the beach takes credit for the poems and ends up rich from No Face's work. 4) No Face goes back to the sea and calls upon a siren to help him get his rightfully earned money. 5) One day, the thieving man is relaxing on the beach with all his money and the siren approaches him. Whilst he is entranced by her presence, No Face steals the money from right underneath him. 6) No Face goes to the big city with all his money and becomes a successful poet.

The like the issues tackled here. The fact that No Face hasn't a face, therefore he expresses himself through right. He also has no access to much of an audience so he goes of in search for one. He encounters the greed of the word above and calls onto his family to help achieve his goals. It's definitely an uplifting story. One that is basically a comment on how a talent has found it's voice and identity in a harsh world. However, I don't feel that the struggle No Face encountered brought enough tension and anticipation to the story.

Storyboard Idea: Rastaman

This story is ordered from the bottom square to the top. 1) Rastaman is happily married to his wife in the city. 2) Rastaman finds his wife cheating on h with a doll in the shower. 3) Rastaman's wife leaves him for the doll. 4) Rastaman goes on a quest to Mount Coke - a mountain covered in cocain - to ease his pain. 4) On the way to the top, Rastaman meets an intriguing ftm (female to male) transgender male. They climb the mountain together. 5) When they reach the top they have fallen in love and live the rest of their days there.

I found this idea interesting because it tackles quite serious concepts eg doll obsessions, drug addiction and gender identity/sexual orientation. However, I hate stories that send out the message love conquers all. If I were to rewrite this I would definitely change the resolution to the story and make more of a internal change within Rastaman.

Storyboarding

These are three separate storyboards my group and I created using characters and places we have connected to or have experienced in our lives. Crossing their paths to produce new, inventive stories. 

Time Line (Final idea)

Final composition: I felt this was the most visually pleasing image out of all of them. However, it would have been more affective if I used a different surface - other than carpet - such as, a larger sheet of white paper. This would direct the viewers attention more to the pieces rather than their surroundings. Overall, I wasn't too happy with the outcome of my final timeline. I believe the concept of it was good, but it didn't translate as well visually. Perhaps this is because of the way I chose to present it (in individual comic frames).

Time Line: Composition development

Comic composition: Here I have ordered each emotion chronologically, creating a clearer sense of change over time, with a slightly better aesthetic.