We do focus on the details, the specific scenes while we were discussing, but we forget about the main thing, the main story line was all about.
Our group went on group tutorial with Mr. Charles today, and we prepared sketches on our story line, but we did not even prepare a simple story timeline. Mr. Charles pointed that out, asked for our main synopsis, and cleared some mist for us.
Ideation Visuals
So, our story was about 2 clan leaders' revenge on each other which involved the generations that follow.
And, we sorted out our main story timeline and had simply written it down,
Above was the main story bone of our story.
Our story's cult was all about Soul.
The secret clan that appears in our story was called the 'Souler'.
Due to that, we had already set our mind to name our story as Souler. It was, according to Mr. Charles on his latest tutorial with us, not so clear that people will not relate 'Souler' with 'revenge', since it was the theme of our story.
Contextual Definitions
The story was required to relate to a cult.
Design References
A Glimpse on Hamlet
I happened to bypass the Shakespeare's Hamlet, a play that centred with the theme revenge.
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| Illustrated and designed by Catherine LaPointe |
In the play, prince of Denmark, Prince Hamlet was encountered by Ghost, who later was revealed as his dead father.
Ghost told Hamlet how he was killed by his brother, King Claudius.
The murder of his father and the remarried of his mother to his uncle rekindles the fire of revenge inside Hamlet.
Hamlet decided to re-enact the murder scene of his father with the production of The Murder of Gonzago, which in Hamlet's word : ' the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.'
In the midst of the play, the King was agitated and this confirmed that he was a guilty man, he then planned to murder his king uncle while the King was praying, but did not.
Instead, Hamlet killed Polonius, and for that he was banished to England.
He secretly came back to the Denmark, had a sword fight with son of Polonius, Laertes.
Meanwhile, Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude unconsciously drank the poison wine prepared by the King to kill Hamlet.
Laertes confessed about the Queen before he died. Hamlet then stabbed King Claudius and forced him to drink the poison wine. He then died from the wound received during the fight.
Inspiration
It happened that many films from all around the world was inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet.
For instance, The Lion King (1994)
The Banquet (2006)
Characters' Outfit design
We took reference on the White American artist, Kirby Sattler. His paintings are all his perspective on the American Natives.
Idea Reference
The philosophy of - The Eye in the movie Now You See Me(2013)
The story of Hamlet inspires me on using the theme 'revenge' as the main collarbone of the story flow.
Everything happens because of the promise-broking of the male Souler leader.
And the chain reaction that follows,
- the revenge planned by the female Souler leader
- murder of the wife of the male leader
- tormenting memories implanted in the mind of main character
- the avenge of the main character towards the female leader
Dialogue/Narrative
For this tutorial, I drew some simple comic sketches about the story line.
However, it was just some introduction about the cult and how the story began.
It was just sketches to visualize the beginning of the story.
