Moving Pictures: Project Proposal

Brief (what are you going to produce, how and for what reason)

• 3 stings - representing themes and characters from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and a title sequence informing the audience of the play and author. I will try to incorporate the text into the illustrations. Either that, or add it digitally.
• To advertise the play/book.

Background/considerations (Tone of voice/mood, audience/context, form/format, colour, media etc)

• The mood will be magical, surreal, romantic and confusing in theme with the play.
• Audience - Shakespeare fans, students studying Shakespeare, anyone interested in the 'human condition' or literature!
• I will be using rich colours like red, gold, silver, green (to highlight the themes of lust/love/passion, magic/surreal, and the power of nature). I will also be using metallic inks to add a magical feel to the prints. I may add more details once the prints have dried with metallic pens or paints. 
• The paper/background will be white for a clean cut look. (or perhaps a sky with stars)

Deliverables- what exactly do you intend to submit? (Quantity, format, scale etc.)

• 3 10 second stings.

Interim Deadlines

• Thumbnail ASAP - experiment with layout and composition.
• Think about how to incorporate the imagery and motifs into the animation sequence
• Draw frames
• Think about how the text will be presented
• Experiment with colours and media.

OUIL504 ILLUSTRATION 1 PROCESS AND PRODUCTION

STUDIO BRIEF 3 PROJECT PROPOSAL: MOVING PICTURES

·         I intend to produce…

3 10 second stings corresponding to the 9 scenes in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are 5 acts. I want to focus on symbolism and imagery; particularly transforming different elements into other motifs. I really want to use metallic inks – gold and silvers; to encourage the theme of magic; juxtaposing these with a darker rich colour like reds and greens. I will experiment with different ink combinations in my sketch book and then also experiment with tools and programs such as dragon frame and after effects to edit and compile my animation. I will try to create some test animations before my final ones.  

·         The content will focus on 3 specific themes/texts/concepts…
The texts I will focus on will be from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare. The themes from this play that I will be focussing on throughout my prints will be in simple terms love, confusion and magic; Loves Difficulty/Love out of Balance, Magic/fairies/love potion/supernatural power of love/surreal world, Dreams/events occurring without explanation/fantastical experience. Motif: Contrasts; groups of opposites and doubles (lino print should help with this motif as there will be a clear contrast between the cut out parts and the inked parts), and juxtaposition of extraordinary differences. Symbols: the love potion – symbol of the unreasoning, fickle, erratic power of love, Theseus and Hippolyta- represent order and stability and rationality, The Craftsmen’s Play – symbol for a Midsummer Night’s Dream itself – story involving powerful emotions that is made hilarious by its comical presentation.

·         I will be aiming to communicate 3 specific messages/moods/ideas which will be closely linked with the above themes. The mood will be magical/fantastical/supernatural, to do this I will really have to push myself to create scenes that are either unrealistically beautiful, e.g. flowers and fairies etc, powerful and strong imagery, or light and dark (things slightly hidden in the dark). Also love, lust and its irrationality and indecisiveness will also be focused on. I will be looking at communicating love and marriage, order and disorder/appearance and reality, using motifs such as nature, the moon, sleep and dreams, eyes, plays, rehearsals, roles/parts and magic.

·         To an audience of viewers that may either be Shakespeare fans, may think that Shakespeare is irrelevant (hopefully my work will help to show it for its timeless themes) and so open them up to him or even just being aware of his work, teenagers/adults; the themes are complex and about love and lust, not for children. I want to produce some unique prints that provide emotion and a sense of a dream like quality.