Ancillary products draft...

Here's the first examples of the ancillary products. The silhouettes are where photos will be inserted once they are taken. I've also taken a screen shot of the print work with the gridlines on as I've been told it works quite well with the designs. The evolution silhouette is to show the proxemics and rising status of the band, it is NOT meant as a stab at religion.

~ Jack ~

Location Recce and Risk Assessment...

Okay, so I think I've decided on the places where to film... My house, and the areas surrounding where I live. The areas are rather rural and isolated which is why I think they are perfect for the feeling of isolation the protagonists of the narrative feel. Here's the risk assessment and recce for the filming locations...

first draft... the story so far...

Here's the initial drafts for the ancillary products... Obviously they are not finished as of yet with the digipak very lacking in images. Already I have been told that the digipak outer panels look better with the grid that I was using as a guideline, which makes it look like a matrix sort of background. I will edit this later when the first draft is complete, stay tuned... 

~ Jack ~

I think we have an emergency... Continue?

So on Saturday, it came to filming the narrative... And that's where the problems arose...

Talking to my actors in a focus group, the narrative has practically been shot down due to being convoluted. This has caused me to completely rethink the narrative from themes upwards... Here's a list of what is being considered...

• Evolution of the characters - self growth
• Merging the narrative and performance - using characters as performers.
• Peripeteia - role reversal of the geeks and "jocks"/ Prom King/Queen
• Ignoring voyeurism - positive characters not sexualised. 
• Taking themes of retro gaming/etc from Ancillary products...
• Jump cuts/Stop Motion for long shots to be shortened.
• Remove the violence scenes - not a positive representation

To achieve this I would use more ideas with props. The evolution/self growth idea I would like to achieve by using the change in instruments from

• Air Guitar => Guitar Hero instruments => Actual instruments.

The merging of the performance including the protagonists in the band... This ties in with the proxemics and evolution of the characters and their relationship. I intend to have the protagonists relationship as ambiguous as possible and up to the audiences reading of it. This ties into the use of Peripeteia in which while the two rise, the cooler people sink... This can be shown with an evolution and devolution type scene... This would involve:

• Silhouettes of a typical evolution image
• regression or progression of characters - metaphorical reading.
• ties into time travel reference/etc at the end - brighter future?

I'll update with anything new as it unfolds...

~ Jack ~

Storyboards are finished! \o/

Here is the finished storyboard... any of the blank slides (such as on pictures 3,6,7,8 and 9) are where short additional scenes were added or space for repetition of past scenes but the characters will be portrayed a lot more positively...

All comments will be greatly appreciated!

~ Jack ~

Poster design...

These are the basic ideas of my second ancillary product, the album poster...
Comment with which you think is most effective!
~ Jack ~

Digipak design...

This is a design for the 1st of the ancillary products, the Digipak.