Stage 2

Here are the initial sketches for my comic book. My title is a work in progress - I am not sure if I like it. I am also thinking about revising the story, I don't know if it makes enough sense or not.

So far, this is what I have for the cover. It definitely still needs a lot of work. I need to put some dots on the butterfly but I am not sure if I want them like I had them drawn. I also need to decide what to do in the background. I think I want to have the same background for each page, but need help deciding what to do there. I am also considering doing the cover words in cursive and adding a smaller version of the butterfly up there with it.

Again, this is a very rough idea of how I want the leaf and the caterpillar to look. I want them to be very abstract, hence why the caterpillar is purple instead of a more realistic caterpillar color. I'm not sure if this is what a "storyboard" consists of, but it's what I have so far. It definitely needs to be spruced up quite a bit for the final project.

Final Project Sketches

Here are my preliminary sketches for the final project. Unfortunately, this is the project I have been dreading since I first read the syllabus, and the only one I have worried about failing on. I have never done anything with flash animation, so it is really intimidating. So far (this could definitely change into something entirely different by the end) I have been thinking about doing a metamorphosis type thing and relating it to how I have grown with my work as an aspiring photographer. I started out like the caterpillar, and grew into the butterfly. I want to use yellow and light purple (like a lilac shade) because those are my favorite colors. I'm not sure if I am going to make this into a little comic book with captions, or if it's going to be a continuous video. Like I mentioned, this could completely change by the end into something else, although I hope I can make this idea work.

ZEISS Photographs

Here are the photographs that I will be submitting to the ZEISS competition. I straightened the images out, as well as changed them to black and white. I really love black and white photography because I feel that it gives the images a timeless feel. I love the way these look, especially the last three. The competition calls for photographs from a meaningful place. I took these at Hicks Orchard in Granville, NY - a place I have gone every year since I was little.

ZEISS Potential Photographs

I decided that for the competition, I am going to enter 5 photographs. However, I am going to post 8 in here and would like advice on which photographs I should choose to submit. The editing that I am going to do on these is to straighten them out a bit, and I also am considering doing solely black and white photographs. The theme is meaningful places, I chose to do photographs from solely one place that is meaningful to me - Hicks Orchard in Granville, NY. This place is meaningful to me because I have a lot of memories from going here every year growing up with family. We would usually always go with my Nana and Papa, and my Aunt and Uncle. It was always a lot of fun, and definitely something to look forward to each year. These photographs are from out trip there last year - which I made sure to check was acceptable for the project. As long as they were done from January 2012 up to February 2017, they are acceptable.