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Storyboarding
Mar. 6th, 2007 10:30 amFor those who haven't heard, I have been working myself to death on portfolios, because I'm trying to get into a design program for the fall. Architecture, Industrial Design, or Interior Design. If you know any real life professionals in those fields, let me know -- I want to know what they do and don't like about the work, what the market is like, anything else a newcomer would find useful, and especially how to pick one when all three of them interest me.
I finally finished the fourth or fifth "good copy" iteration of the lotus dreamer and am -- at last -- satisfied enough with the results that I'm not going to turn right around and try again. This is a relief, since I've traced that drawing at least six times now...
So I get to move on to the Fairy Gig comic, which is supposed to be "a sequence or series of images depicting a journey on foot, at a particular time of day, with seven or more points of interest." A couple days ago, I did not even have the idea for a script, and was getting ready to pull my hair out. Then Brian sparked an idea for me -- "What would Charles De Lint do with this?" -- and so now I have a script. The new problem is to storyboard it to see if it all fits in the allowed space, or if I have to find a way to cut or condense it.
Have you ever noticed how much of a difference it makes when you find the thesis for something you're doing? (Yes, I'm stealing thesis in the sense of core statement from essay-writing.) It becomes so much clearer what you have to do to accomplish your thesis, and the implementation details start sorting themselves out. But when you don't have the thesis, you flounder, looking for something impressive to say, and ways to fill out the word count. It doesn't work. There was this one essay in university where the deadline ground closer and closer but I just could not find anything to say about my topic, so I had no structure and no inspiration. Not being able to find my thesis was a revelation: this is what essays are like for other people all the time? No wonder they pad them! No wonder they suck! It made me grateful that I almost never have that experience.
Ami, Allison, once I get through portfolios, I want to try and arrange that baking get-together!
I finally finished the fourth or fifth "good copy" iteration of the lotus dreamer and am -- at last -- satisfied enough with the results that I'm not going to turn right around and try again. This is a relief, since I've traced that drawing at least six times now...
So I get to move on to the Fairy Gig comic, which is supposed to be "a sequence or series of images depicting a journey on foot, at a particular time of day, with seven or more points of interest." A couple days ago, I did not even have the idea for a script, and was getting ready to pull my hair out. Then Brian sparked an idea for me -- "What would Charles De Lint do with this?" -- and so now I have a script. The new problem is to storyboard it to see if it all fits in the allowed space, or if I have to find a way to cut or condense it.
Have you ever noticed how much of a difference it makes when you find the thesis for something you're doing? (Yes, I'm stealing thesis in the sense of core statement from essay-writing.) It becomes so much clearer what you have to do to accomplish your thesis, and the implementation details start sorting themselves out. But when you don't have the thesis, you flounder, looking for something impressive to say, and ways to fill out the word count. It doesn't work. There was this one essay in university where the deadline ground closer and closer but I just could not find anything to say about my topic, so I had no structure and no inspiration. Not being able to find my thesis was a revelation: this is what essays are like for other people all the time? No wonder they pad them! No wonder they suck! It made me grateful that I almost never have that experience.
Ami, Allison, once I get through portfolios, I want to try and arrange that baking get-together!