Week 3 was about continuing and consolidating the intro to the piece. As a result I continued tinkering with the timing of the sequence. This was made much easier now that I had the skills to play the sound and images at the same time, oh what an age we live in!
I worked up a composition using the storyboard image for the 'new stage of human evolution' section. In this I have the Darwinin model of the 'ape' through to Homo Sapien sliding into screen as the camera pulls back. Was happy with the final result.
I also worked on the finished background for the opening panel 'the gay gene has been found'. As usual I am not at all happy with the quality of my artwork, but it will have to do for now, I think I'll get better as I go.
Getting to this stage has however highlighted a few areas that I knew I was not 100% clear on. That is the backgrounds on a few of the panels, are basically blank. I'm not sure how or if to fill these. Given my milestone for week 5 is to have all these completed I will have to decide soon. It is not a big headache, just a design issue on how to make blank backgrounds remain interesting, and endure I'm not repeating, or making them different for the sake of it.
I'm also still not 100% on how to move into the panels and from one to the next. I don't want to move around a comic page as if we are reading a comic book, but I would like to start the piece as zooming into a comic book. But from there I think I want to just move from shot to shot ignoring the comic book presence. However I also do kind of like the idea of moving within space to the panels in a fashion similar to the opening sequence of Spider-Man 3.
Finally I need the music trimmed and edited to fit the timing of intro. It fortunately is fairly close but needs a few tweaks here and there. But week 5 milestone is looking achievable and appropriate. Famous last words.
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