[Drawing Class] 28/02/13 - Storyboarding

During this lesson we had to skip ahead a few weeks and do something we was going to do in the future, the life model had cancelled this week and so we were given the task to create the following; a storyboard with no more than 12 frames, with a story that features no characters, speech bubbles or objects that move. A strange task, telling a story without words and characters isn't something I have ever thought about, however we were put into groups and I worked with Emma Pinder to create said story.

We were given a break to think about what we were going to create and how we would go about making it, we then settled for doing a house going through time, in the present time in the first frame and 1,000 years into the future in the last frame. This was inspired by a TV documentary called Life after People:

We began drawing the storyboard, I did the first frame and the ending frame, then I worked backwards doing the building getting better while Emma worked the other way and made the building deteriorate. After finishing it, it ended up like this.

I think it turned out well, though most of the class had a similar idea to us, I think we told a story well without using speech bubbles and characters. It was a fun lesson as it required us using our imagination and wit to try and think of an idea that would work.