Task 2: Appeal & Staging

Appeal:
- A drawing or character design that can attract and plead the audience 
(A design that can communicate to the audience of the character's personality/motive) 

For the first section, we had to sketch out various designs of character elements, which included eyes, mouths, ears, limbs, and torsos. 

This task was somewhat difficult as creating various designs for each character element with distinctive characteristics was challenging with the amount of time we had for each character element. 

After this practice, I was aware that my range of variety was hugely lacking and somewhat uninspiring, as a lot of the elements were generic and not really stylistic. However, after reviewing my designs, and coming up with the character face/head, I simplified my character facial designs to create a simplistic and more stylised character.

After finalising my characters' design, I experimented with various colour schemes of the character.                             
                 

Originally, I planned on using the grey/purple colour scheme, however after comparing it to the other colour schemes, I decided to go with the purple/pink colour scheme as I believe it is a more unique colour scheme compared to the rest.

Further into the task, we had to draw out the designed character with various poses, and a character pose chart which featured the view of the character in the same pose in various angles; front, back, side and 3/4 front/back.

Staging:
- Illustrating a narrative which presents a clear direction of the actions of the character and tells a story/action with the designed character

In the second section of the task, we had to create a simple story through a storyboard with the designed character. To help with the story board, a mask was created so that we can get into character and create poses that we wanted to help with the drawing later on.

In addition to the sketch of the character in the storyboard, camera shots had to be added that would help direct the story visually.

Utilising and visualising how the story could be delivered visually was extremely challenging as I have never learnt or looked into what the purpose of the shot types were in film making. Moreover, creating a suitable background for each scene was also difficult to visualise as it had to make sense along with the shot types that were used. 

Task 2 PDF: Appeal & Staging