Design Process Poster 3

The Haiku that I used to inspire my posters was:

The sea darkening . . .

oh voices of the wild ducks

Crying, whirling, white

(Basho.M 2018)

The Process

For poster three I started the process by playing around with different story ideas. I used my haiku to draw inspiration. I eventually chose the idea about the lost fisherman and the white ducks guiding him to heaven. I decided on this idea because it would be easy for me to portray the story through images due to its simplicity and its lack of dialogue.

I then created a mockup of the story board that had the imagery for each panel as well as notes so I could easily design the board in a way that was easy to follow. I also gave showed this plan to my family without the notes to see if the story was easy enough to follow with captions. In this stage I divided the narrative up into sections that made sense when positioned in the final board.

I decided to make the story board on photoshop and after drawing the first few tiles, I played around with the layout and the direction in which it would read. I decided to do 4 horizontal rows of three. My story is divided into three parts setting scene, main plot, finishing reveal, however the two middle rows both represent different sections of the main plot so I felt it would be best divided into two rows. During this stage I was also developing a colour scheme so that there would be consistency across all the panels.

In my final story board I aimed to make sure each panel had a unique composition or point of view in order to help tell the story. One of my main focuses was angles. I used a mixture of close ups, wides angles, birds eye views, mid shots and low angle shots. This was done to tell the story as each shot had to signify a different point in the story and they all had to be portrayed differently. Another technique I focused on using was colour scheme. In order to make the board cohesive I used colour to connect the panels. The colour changes from dark and the beginning to light and the end and then suddenly back to dark again to replicate the plot line. At the end of my story the image jumps back to beginning to show that it was not the man travelling with the ducks but his spirt as he dies. I played around with the order of the story and decided the best way to end it was to tie it back to the beginning.

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Basho.M (2018), Haiku of Basho. http://oaks.nvg.org/basho.html