During our tutorial we showed Stuart our plans for the project so far and from this he gave us feedback on our characters and designs which we have been making, here we also discussed the storyline which we had been thinking about and how we can then take our characters further in order to create a final storyboard for our work.
We discussed the smoke coming out of the head of the character, as it can come across as dark and polluting. Therefore it needs to be removed from the character design since it is bringing a dark element to my character that needs to be light and glowing. The smoke gives the character a burning almost factory atmosphere which is not what we want communicated. We thought that the buyout hand coming in to snuff out the fire was appropriate yet this is also imagery which is a bit darker than necessary since fire also has a link to life and does not sit well with Ivor’s idea of empowerment. Therefore this loss of creativity represented in the dulling of the fire needs to be shown in another way to work with Ivor’s focus on empowerment. There needs to be an element of growth and development in the work and less dark imagery and actions in the story.
At the moment we have many ideas for the storyline and the main focus coming away from the tutorial is properly considering our imagery and what it communicates so we can streamline these ideas and come up with a more solid concept to present in our meeting the the Ivor’s team.