Since my last update I haven’t been consistent with the blog post updates, that I will need to go and improve significantly. But so far with my FMP all the art I have panned out and ready to go, the dressage effects and rodeo are done- along side with the poster, however there is alteration needed as I just need to add the date and where it is. Currently I’m working on the race track art. The line and flat colour is done ( almost done for the flat colour )

For the remainder of the day I want to get the track piece done by at least lunch so I can start the second piece for dressage. The Dressage page will link onto the Dancing page. Even though the individual subjects will be in chapters, the referral will be made between the different pages / chapters so that the same piece of art doesn’t have t be used twice, there maybe a part that I’ll have to use a piece twice but it shouldn’t be common.

Today im planning to draw each of the pages pieces of art as I would like to get at least two done today. So far I’ve done a lot for today FMP wise but I would like to get all the base work done before the front cover.

On Tuesday we all made our surveys so people could fill out, so far I got 8 responses, and these are the responses.

Over the past week I’ve been working on my poster for the show case, finally I have finished the poster. All I really need to do for the poster is the possibly print and frame it quite large. I have taken screen shots of the progress for the poster. I can explain how I have done them step by step.

 

I took inspiration from other animal abuse posters, mainly horse abuse posters that made me go with something that looks perfectly normal but is actually the harsh reality of the majorette of sport.

The second step was pretty easy it is more or less the line art of the whole piece, I wanted to keep the whole lie art and not have it painted as it would be expected to be.

I did forget to capture the line art of the piece so I ended up capturing the simple base colour with the foam. With the line art I did try to put a lot more detail into the fur as horse fur is pretty hard to do, especially in a time limit that we have. I wanted to make sure that the eyes were nice and detailed as its the eyes that  give out more emotion. The next stage was adding some detail the the fur to try and make it a lot more realistic. this was the result.My final result, the whole image is all done.  As I was  inspired  by other animal abuse posters all that was left t do was add some shine t the light detail along with adding the black background to make the horse almost invisible but still seen.All that was left to do is edit the piece to  truly make a poster, I knew where the writing was going to go and all the colours. This is the final result. I am very happy with the final result of this, it is exactly how I visioned it.

Today I’m planning on finishing off my art for my poster as well as think about the design for the poster as I don’t want it as just a white background, I want something that stands out, I’ll have to look at other horse abuse / awareness posters to see what they’ve done.

If I manage to finish the the poster today I want to get on with the art that goes inside the book so that I’m ahead of my schedule. At the end once I’ve run dry of drawing motivation I’ll get ok with making my survey questions and putting them on google and sending them out to people.

So far today I have done a rough sketch and a more defined sketch on what the poster will look like. I’m planning on maybe adding some cuts/signs of abuse onto the horse to show that it’s not just a regular horse book, that it’s a book that is about the hidden abuse in horse sports. I only want one design for the poster as i have to get on and do the pictures inside the book as well as figure out what image I want a my front cover. Here is what I have for the poster so far…

I want to make a more realistic approach to the poster and the front cover as they’ll both be the main attraction, the art inside the book on the other hand will be more simplistic so you can actually see where and how the abuse causes harm to the horse. Once I’ve done all the art I will need to select mini sections from each category to minimise the text so it wont put off the reader.

• Do you know any form of horse abuse?

 

 

 

• How do you feel about Dressage?

 

 

 

• What age bracket do you fit under?

10 -15   15-18  21-27  27-30  30-45+

Prefer not to say______

 

 

• what type of horse abuse do you know? ( please specify below)

 

____________________________________________________________________________________________

 

• have you ever noticed any type of abuse within the horse sporting world?

Yes (   )      No (    )      Not sure (     )

Contributing to a narrative can go any way possible as that’s usually the case 40% of the time. The first most important start to a narrative is a location. The majorette of movies and TV shows always take place in a house or recognised neighbourhood. 50% of the time a movie will pan into a house, a example of TV shows that do this are… American dad, Friends, Family guy, Simpsons, Easterners, Hollyoaks. Some don’t start in a house, the rate that it will however is very high.

You cant have a narration without the second element. That element is character. You’ll be introduced to the main character, along side this you’ll be introduced to the characters love interest, family, friends or even the villan with their sidekick. Seeing the character can go many different ways, you either hear what they sound like or see what they look like before one or the other. You see the main character ( or hero ) in a particular outfit. An example to use of this is Peter Parker from spider man comics is a bright red, blue, black and white. That’s what we see him as most recognisable. Each and every character has their own unequal fashion choice and voice as well as quirky catch lines like Sheldonds’ ‘Bazinga!’

The last but not least one more important part is that you have to have some kind of scenario, this is called action. The most prime example with action has to be any DC or Marvel film. There is always a reason to be fighting, may that be a family crisis, a apocalypse, a war or even a kidnapping. Anything that fits into that section is movie and tv show ready.

The four theorists all had a different idea on the three elements. Tzvetan Tdorovs view on the elements were seen as linear but circular.  The narrative is driven by the characters attempt to restore the equilibrium. He had five stages on the narrative progress, compared to Vladimir propps seven. The folks tales helped him propose ways of grouping the characters and actions into one type, this is also known as the ‘Spheres of Action’ These are the different roles that are given out, such as the hero, villan, princess helper etc. Roland Barthes gave five codes of narrative. The enigma, the action, the image, the subtext and the cultural influence. With all of these amazing people, their ideas eventually came into one over time thus creating the three rules of narrative. Tzvetan Tdorov as Action, Roland Barthes as Location, and Vladimir Propp as character. There is one man left, that is Levi-Strauss, his theory is that the conflict is based around the binary opposites and that the binary opposites are the central climax of a narrative structure.

For my FMP there aren’t alot of theories to it. There are the elements. The location is mostly a stable or a competition area. The character I will be focusing on is the horse and people around it, The horse is the victim, the villans are the people that abuse these horses and we are the heroes. The location will be a bit problematic for my final hard draft as it’s a book. The Action here doesn’t have an ending ans this’ll never be stopped until its recognised. The action is a huge part within the three elements of my FMP that wont be solved like the rest of the actions that we see, and this wont likely have a great ending.

Later on today I will be interviewing Erin, she’s a friend of mine that knows a lot about my FMP subject. This can help me out a lot as if there are any facts that I’ve missed out she will be able to give me the facts that I need. We will be calling at about 1:30 PM, until then I can write out my survey that I can post hopefully tomorrow!

The art that’s going to be done will have to be delayed until the interview is recorded and edited along with the survey done as the art is my last priority. I’m extremely glad that I managed to finish my presentation board yesterday, it’s given me a lot of help and time to reflect and Make sure everything I need to going to be done or is already done.

Tzvetan Tdorov

Tdorov suggests there are five stages to how the narrative progress:

1- The equilibrium has to be carefully shown ( to ensure the disruption is dramatic enough enough to create a strong plot)

2- There is disruption.

3- There is recognition that the disruption has happened.

4- There is an attempt to repair the damage done by the disruption.

5- A new equilibrium is achieved.

Here the narrative is not seen as linear but circular. The narrative is driven by the character’ attempts to restore the equilibrium, although the end result is not quite the same as the beginning.

Vladimir Propp

Propp studied folks tales and he proposed ways of grouping the characters and their actions into eight broad character types  of ‘Spheres of Action’ Character may occupy more than one sphere of action.

1- The Villain

2- The Hero

3- The Donor

4- The Helper

5- The Princess

6- The Father

7- The False Hero

Levi-Strauss

Levi-Strauss introduced the notion of binary oppositions as a useful way to consider the production of meaning within narratives. He argued that all construction of meaning was dependant, to some degree, on those oppositions. Polar opposites. Death and Life, Love and hate, Good and bad.

Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes suggests five codes of narrative:

1- The hermeneutic code ( the enigma)

2- The proairetic ( the action )

3- The semic code ( the images )

4- The symbolic code ( the subtext )

5- The referential code ( the cultural influence )

 

3 elements.

Location, Character, Action. Use the three elements in my homework.