- Location and Set
- Costume and Appearance
- Developing my project from the initial pilot to the final project
Location and Set
After finishing my pilot, I felt that I was too restricted to using found images [and the added work of chroma key and green screening]. I decided that I would rather have a plethora of images that I took myself and had control over which would enable my project to incorporate different shots within the motion comic as I was running the risk of the motion comic becoming aesthetically boring using the same shot [as in the pilot]. I'm extremely pleased with the photo-shoot shot at a office complex in Cardiff as it created a sense of verisimilitude that would have been quite difficult to create myself.
Costume and Appearance
A lot has changed since the Pilot as I have already mentioned in previous blog posts. Here I will talk about my decisions regarding costume and appearance of the protagonist within the motion comic. Within the Pilot, I felt the costume for the protagonist didn't really suite that of a spin doctor as the costume was quite casual. I decided to do research into a variety of roles within the Media to get a feel for the appropriate clothing:
Media Moguls
To look at examples of media moguls dress, I looked at the above link... Below are the images from the website...
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| Steve Jobs (Apple) |
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| Simon Cowell (SyCO) |
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| Rupert Murdoch (News Corporation) |
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| Sir Martin Sorrell (WPP) |
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| Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) |
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| Mark Thompson (BBC) |
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| Larry Page (Google) |
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| Jeremy Hunt (UK Government) |
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| James Murdoch (News Corporation) |
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| Evan Williams (Twitter) |
TV Dramas- In the Thick of It [Malcolm Tucker]
Great influence [dress sense rather than attitude].
As you can see, it's either a turtle neck or suit [work dress]. For my motion comic, I've decided to mix it up with using smart casual dress as I didn't want the protagonist to dress too formal in a full suit as it wasn't fitting to the protagonist's role for him to do so. So from the waist down, it's jeans and shoes, waist up, shirt, tie and jacket for shots in the office. At home, extremely casual with tee , trainers and jeans.
I decided to go with the colour light purple as it is a neutral colour and isn't as aggressive as a deep red or deep blue shirt. It was quite interesting researching into the colours of shirts as subconsciously we semiotically read a person by the colour they are wearing. Here's a few examples of the connotations of the colour purple:
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| http://www.kmb-designs.com/colors/purple.html |
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| http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html |
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