Studio Brief 3 - Explore - Initial Ideas

I decided to post about my sketchbook as I think that I managed to clearly explain and demonstrate my ideas through sketches and documented thought processes.

On the left, I wrote the brief out. This usually helps me generate ideas because it is the beginning of me understanding what is being asked of me, what guidelines I need to follow and what deliverables are expected. On the right, is my initial mind map to help me generate ideas. I separated the categories and thought about what I associated with them categories.

On the left, I did some initial sketches and annotation of my first strong idea, which was centred around a baby inside of a woman's stomach, growing from a small ball. I had the idea of using plastercine as the medium for the baby as it is easy to mould. I showed a quick camera shot at the top of the image. I demonstrate that I wanted the stomach to be zoomed into, and then eventually focused on the baby.

On the right, I briefly demonstrate what the opening shot would of been. My idea was to have a woman walk into the shot, and stand in the centre ready for the zoom in shot. I also sketched out an idea of what I wanted the set for the inside of the stomach to look like. I was going to make a box that contained pink and purple fabric to symbolise the inside of the woman's stomach. I would of set a camera in front of the set to get the right angle.

Here was my second idea that I decided to explore. I wanted to focus on the generic idea of having the parasite being a piece of clothing, and the host being a human. The pixelation would of focused on the interaction between the two.

On the left, I analysed and thought through my third strong idea. On the right, I made two key shots that came to mind when reviewing my idea. I decided that this idea was the strongest. It would be based around the theme parasite and host. I would have the parasite crawling inside of the persons ear.

I decided to create a mind map to generate ideas and concepts of fear and nightmares. I then pinpointed certain ones that stood out most to me because of how interesting and how much room I would have to create something that I would be please with. I decided on using the fears suffocation, fire, sharp objects and growing old because they are all contrasting fears, but also common in people.

Overall, these few pages from my sketchbook have helped me with my idea development.