As a group we had another meeting on Thursday, 3 February a few of our group members had to wok on some thing for this meeting. Since we decided on our story last meeting we needed a story board and a main character for this weeks meeting. Lee, Fan, Phoebe and I were going to sit together to discuss the character and to create a story board. Mainly Phoebe and Fan for creating the concept of the character and me and Lee to talk about the story and draw a storyboard. Aside from that Eddie, Jesse and me also had to talk about how the environment is going to be and what are key points that we have to add in the scenery.
Before the meeting I sat down with Lee to create a storyboard to give an impression to the rest of the group. Since this project is starting off with the research I did and the small story I told I gave him my vision of the broad lines I wanted it to look like. In my vision it is this guy living in a cyberpunk world walking down the usual street. He is overwhelmed by all the rich technology that his universe uses. he comes across an alleyway where he turns to a 2D-animated portal that will show a completely different universe, one with nature an specifically the lotus flower. from this point we created the storyboard step by step, where in the discussion with Lee we decided to add a few extra part such as kicking the can and checking his e-mail.
Order of the storyboard (use reference image above):
- panning down from rich city view
- panning down on poor city view
- character shown walking down his street
- stopping abruptly
- gets a message on his ‘phone-glasses’ (about for example rent due date (late))
- Angry and kicks a can
- goes to pick up the can he just kicked in front of an alleyway and looks inside
- sees something out of this world, a portal
- walks in to the alleyway
- goes towards the portal investigate (gets drawn to the aura)
- goes to touch the portal
- sees his fingers change to human fingers (view: 3D cyberpunk world look towards 2D portal)
- puts his entire hand in the portal (view: 2D world look towards 3D cyberpunk world)
We brought this to our meeting on the Thursday and Lee gave the presentation about the story board by explaining every step you see in the image.
For the main character of the story Fan and Phoebe mostly sat together to talk about the character. Me and Lee added is some small parts but left the main sketch to Phoebe and Fan’s vision. There where only a few things that we would have to keep in mind linking it to the storyboard. one being that he gets a notification on a screen like thing that covers his face (we decided on him wearing a mask as a group). Also at least one of his arm has to be robot/cyborg like which is going to be the hand that will reach for the portal and lastly it has to be kind of human like proportions, this concludes better with the story that he would touch the portal to become human again. If he would for example have too long arms it would be a little bit off putting of a transition.
Phoebe drew the character concept art and gave us a little bit of a story on the choices she made. she based her design on a ex-police officer (concluding why he is wearing that shirt) and based a lot on it being quite detailed to fit the cyberpunk theme we go for.