The outcome for this brief was to create an animation portraying a narrative. The animation was six frames only. This is something that felt very daunting to me as I couldn’t comprehend creating a story, start, middle and end, into only six frames. Especially without context. So, I found the initial exercises very helpful. The second exercise where we were told to create a story using images provided was the most helpful and where I really got into creating a narrative.

We were told to include illustration, which I was happy to hear as illustration was my main focus in college, so I feel like I was ready for the task.

My interpretation of the brief was for the animation to be almost a moving picture. So instead of creating multiple different scenes into one story, I focused on one scene only. I did this because we were only given six frames, which is a difficult task to fit a whole story into without context. I created the animation focusing on suspense. The viewer only sees the shocked faces first, not what is making them shocked. Then, frame by frame, more is revealed

When it came to research, I researched collage artists such as Hannah Höch, and Kavel Rafferty. Their unusual designs inspired the tone of my work. I decided I wanted something more eerie.

I also researched illustration artists such as Briana Kranz for her simplistic designs, and Beatrix Potter for her unusual approach. However, I found Beatrix Potter was too detailed for what I wanted for my outcome.

I wanted my own collages to be unusual and almost freaky, so I focused on pulling out crucial elements from faces and either making them bigger or smaller, or putting them somewhere else. I also overlayed all of the compositions with the same textures I used for the background - pencil strokes.

For my ‘Risk Takers’ I decided to keep them as only sketches. I thought it fit with the themes and added another layer to the illustration. I wanted to use a range of techniques.

When it came to putting the scenes together, I decided to created a different background for each one. I wanted there to be a difference. whether it was different brush strokes, more shading and shadowing, more scribbles. I did this to give it an old movie effect - where you can see the static.

Overall, it came out how I imagined it. I kept the front cover simple but it works well. The white stands out well against the dark background. The cover does what it intends to by giving the viewer a snippet of what is to come, worry. The only thing I would do differently is blend the faces into the background more. Maybe add in more shadows around them. This is because you can see the edges of the compositions, so you can make out the harsh lines. However, my biggest achievement was creating an obvious scene without using words. At first, you don’t know what the people in the darkness are worried about, but as they get further and further away, the reason is revealed.