Adaptation A - Pitch

Here are the top top ideas I've had for my given sentence, I found it difficult to start getting ideas for it but once I thought of a few it got a bit easier.

Character - Concept Cards

Theses are the three cards that I picked out for my Character project:

"Movies" - Television / Pop Culture

"Cleaning" - Tidying / Ordering

"Elasticity" - Squash & Stretch / Bounciness

At first I struggled to see how I could arrange these to start thinking of a game and characters but after talking with Alan I started to get some ideas flowing. 

I have the potential to play with different genres due to the movies card, so it could be a game in which you travel through different genres fixing them putting them back in the correct order, perhaps a horror genre has a fairy princess in it instead of a villain for example. The elasticity could be the method of getting around the world, the characters could bounce instead of walking.

This is the first idea, so I plan on thinking a lot about the cards and shuffling them around to get different results.

Narrative - Card Selection

These are the cards that we got for our group project, I'm quite happy with them as a whole, however I was at first a bit worried about getting the 'No Cuts' card. This however has changed since discussing it with the group and thinking about all the different options we have, it is still very early but we are all very eager to get this project under way.

A quick idea that I have had is perhaps to show a story that communicates how love is an important factor when creating something, so toys that are made without love are bound to fail, where as the toy crafted with care and love is destined to succeed.

Fantastic Voyage - Initial Thoughts

After looking at the four scenarios the one that stands out most for me is the Malaria life cycle, I find it really interesting just how devastating the virus is and how it's life cycle works.

 

Above is a diagram of the life cycle of Malaria. It's amazing how the virus works and reproduces, it starts off with a infected female Anopheles mosquito biting a human, this injects Plasmodium parasites which are known as sporozoites into the blood stream. These sporozoites quickly find there way to the liver and invade the liver cells which are also know as hepatocytes, they then proceed to reproduce asexually creating thousands of merozoites which eventually cause the liver cell to collapse. The released merozoites enter the bloodstream again and invade healthy red blood cells, they multiple again until they burst out of the cell and proceed to infect more healthy red blood cells. Some of the merozoites that infect the red blood cell will become male or female gametocytes, these cells stay in the bloodstream for a few days and can then be ingested by another mosquito as it feasts on the human, these cells mature in the mosquito's gut. The gametocytes develop further into gametes and merge to create ookinetes, from here the ookinetes burrow through the mosquito's gut wall and form oocysts. Sporozoites start to develop inside the oocyst, eventually causing it to burst, which releases the sporozoites, these then travel to the mosquito's salivary glands. The cycle starts again when the infected mosquito bites a human.

I find it extremely interesting and slightly scary how the sporozoites and merozoites invade cells and multiple in them until they burst, the concept kind of makes me think of like a war inside the body. I decided to find some animations that would help me understand it slightly better, one of which was this animation.



I found another diagram that shows the life cycle of Malaria, this image for me successfully breaks down the life cycle into three acts, which is something I could possibly use as a base for the acts.

From Script To Screen - Starting Post

So today we at random pulled out a character, object and location that we have to create a story about. The blue box gifted me:
- Door-to-door Salesman
- Skateboard
- Zoo

I'm actually really excited to get started on this project and to see what kind of story can be generated from this completely random attributes. The hard part will be connecting all the components, I will have to ask all the little questions like why is the skateboard important to the story, what purpose does the zoo have, why is the character a door-to-door salesman.

So for example, the door-to-door salesman could have confidence issues which means he never stood up for himself in the past, thus making him a push over which lead him to fail in his life. Or perhaps he finds joy in being around people so he choose a job which allowed him to go from door to door meeting new people. Once I can figure out the goal of the story, I will be able to develop these back stories and hopefully create an interesting story that will be engaging.

What If Metropolis - Starting post

So today we got briefed on our new project, The What If? Metropolis. We got given a muse that with have to collaborate with in order to push the design of our world, I got Jean Paul Gaultier.

I've started to research into Jean Paul Gaultier's designs and his influences, he was extremely influenced by his grandmother Marie Garrabe. She was a mystic, a hypnotist, a fortune teller, a tarot card reader and she gave beauty advice and home perms. She used to encourage and indulge into his surrogate world that he had created, she also allowed him to watch what ever he wanted on television. This was another influence on Jean Paul, he used to watch programs that were forbidden to children which left a mark on his designs. His interest was in couture, which is basically the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing, which is hand made from expensive, high quality materials, usually for the more wealthy individual. He liked strong women and reflects this in some of his designs, adding armour to some pieces and making the designs quite bold and powerful. He also likes putting men in skirts and showing femininity in their clothes, which he balances with a strong masculinity. Jean Paul has been part of the costume design for a few films as well, including The Fifth Element.

Infamously known for the cone bra that he designed for Madonna for her 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour. The designs above are all very powerful and reflect upon his view on women.

Above are some of the sketches for the cone bra and for The Fifth Element.

I'll keep digging deeper into Jean Paul Gaultier's work and start to work up some influence maps that will help push the design of my metropolis. There's a lot of information to take in and a lot to think about it in terms of design, my first thoughts are that the world will have to be quite bold, express femininity in some form and show power. I feel as if it'll be rude to not include the cone bra in the design of the world as well, as it is one of his most well known designs, which made him an international icon.