Take My Organs!

I may or may not have done a lot of design for society work in the last few weeks, (I'd put my money on the latter). I have neglected this assignment as The Message is a much bigger and more difficult assignment and i had been told i had a solid idea for design for society, so i just sort of... ignored it. However, i bought a new scanner over the weekend and after getting thoroughly peeved off with my Flash animation i decided to use it and re-visit this assignment instead and i actually had a lot of fun. I forgot how relaxing it was to just sketch and scan and experiment. Here are a few of my planning ideas and a basic storyboard to help we with the animatic i will be doing in a couple of days.

 This was my planning, my first idea were characters made of very simple shapes, similar to the Bupa adverts on television. The yellow man with the big head and tiny body was an experiment for this idea but straight after drawing it i realised it was the wrong direction to go in. Next i went for humans with big heads and simple clothes but again, this didn't feel like the right direction. I eventually drew different simplified body shapes with few features with a basic colour and their hair in another basic colour. However, after a discussion with my tutor about how the characters should look i decided to remove their features apart from hair, which would now be a darker shade of their base colour. Here are the results.

 I came up with the idea that the people who need organ transplants will have part of there body shaded in the shape of the organ they need. For example, the red woman needs a new heart and so her heart is black. I decided to keep the colours simple and not give the characters any features as to keep them as simple as possible. I think the above characters also give a fair representation of the population and are hopefully relatable.

Organ donors in black

I decided to swap the male bodybuilder's colour from orange to yellow as yellow is a primary colour and stands out more than orange (and orange is my least favourite colour!). I think the group of people are now more pleasing to the eye and their colours work well together. I have also drawn the chain of organ donors who will all be coloured black as it is a strong shade and i want organ donors to appear strong and generous.

These are my storyboards that will help me in the animatic, although very simple, they tell me which shots i need to do and remind me of the main parts in the story.

After doing this planning work i am now really looking forward to doing design for society and have a clear image of what i want the final product to look like, although i still think it is a good idea to focus on The Message for now as it is such a big assignment that i am very far behind in. Wish me luck!