Poster Three Project: 'The Flare In The Sunset' Storyboard

From across the lake,

Past the black winter trees,

Faint sounds of a flute.

(OW, 571)

This poster, in which I have adapted from my haiku by Richard Wright, follows a story line that is based around a theme that I have extracted from the poem itself. The idea I extracted was "Direction". Using "Direction" in a form of a storyboard, I created a plot in which has several friends, who are lost in the wilderness, find their way back home, via a flare - that lit up in the middle of the night.

The idea of "Direction" comes into play, once the storyboard reaches the "Twist" stage. The lost friends follow the flair gun that lights up in the sky, and as a result, find their way to a Search And Rescue team, who welcome them in a Safety Rescue Helicopter. The very last slot reveals the friends back at home, on a dining table. Happy.

Process:

It was probably the most outrageous thing to do for a beginner drawer - but I did free-hand drawing for my storyboard... using Photoshop. Yikes!

I started off planning my drawings by using the pencil tool, and lowering the size to 1 px. This was so I had a rough idea of what each slot was going to be, in terms of the type of angle shot, the characters that are going to be involved, the scenario, et cetera:

Then I created a new layer, and applied a more heavier stroke on the illustrations. This was the confirmation stage, proceeding onto applying color next.

At first I didn't know what type of style or inspiration I would follow, going into the coloring phase. Until I decided to go for the "water color" look, using my pencil once again, and bumping my stroke to 10 px. I only applied colors to the sky, and the ground. I had not inspiration behind this, but I thought it'd be nice - be different, you know? Yeah.

I used pink for the sky, and blue for the ground. Characters, and the trees remain the same.

The flair in the sky was made red, as I wanted to convey that composition as the most 'loudest' in my storyboard.

This is the final poster. I also applied the background of trees, from shots I took on my P900 Nikon, lowering the saturation of the photo so that it would be less attractive, yet still authentic to the setting of my storyboard.

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Reference List:

Wright, R., Wright, J., Hakutani, Y., Hakutani, Y., & Tener, R. L. (1998). Haiku: This Other World. In R. Wright, Haiku: This Other World (p. 571).