Again I decided to keep the story simple because I wanted to focus on creating clear visuals.
Notice I used a 16:9 aspect similar to a movie because I feel it helps people to pick out the focal points of the picture better (if the picture is set up correctly). I also chose to work only with arms because I wanted to challenge myself to depict emotions sans facial expressions.
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Scene 3
*This was a composite of four pictures. I wanted to convey the idea of a passage of time.
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Scene 10
Comments from tutorial
Classmates: Most were extremely positive about my picture series. They understood the story easily and each picture flowed well to the next. Picture 3 confused one or two - they thought there were four people in the room rather than the same person doing all the actions. That picture could use some tweaking.
Portraying the expired milk was difficult, but I worked around it by creating my own expiry date on the milk and enlarging the 'March' on the calendar. Almost everyone understood what the last 3 pictures meant.
Most especially liked Picture 7 in its depiction of the onset of stomach pains.
Tutor: He never got around to seeing my work in class. But addressing the whole class, he remarked our work was "bland" and "lacked the 'wow' factor". I guess my simple story of expired milk causing food poisoning isn't exactly very "wow". I suppose my zeal for simplicity made my work "bland". I tried so hard to communicate visually (which I thought was the point of the module) that I forgot about impactful content.
So in the interest of wow-ness, I will be scraping this series of pictures and working from scratch.
