Pre-Production Project: Doctor What?
For our main project of this term, we have been asked to choose between either a ‘post’ or ‘pre’ production theme. Naturally I went for pre-production, though I was surprised by the choices of a few others in our group who favoured post-production. I think some may of been put off by the research focus of the pre-production route. Either way, this term will be pretty unique compared to ones before it.
I try to avoid referring to the pre-production project by the description in the brief, simply because it refers to Doctor Who. Strange as it is may seem that anyone enjoys that program, it has been chosen as the base for our project. To be fair, we can mostly ignore the fact it is all about Doctor Who and just pretend it is another time-traveller with an assistant, with scripts that happen to be identical. We will be producing the design bible for a script (just one script, although we research five), so potentially we can turn it into something very different.
The 5 Script Settings
We have five scripts to research, then choose just one to create the design bible for:
- Ancient Pompeii
- Titanic
- Shakespeare / London
- Chino (futuristic china-inspired planet)
- Louis XV
I already know I want to do Chino, simply because I’m a fan of some of the Chinese styles, plus there is the futuristic element that can be added to it. I believe it is mostly set in the market place, so I have a few ideas of what feel I might go for and seek inspiration from.
We have to present our research findings as small groups next week, then after that we should be able to get the ball rolling and get some drawing on the go. At the minute I am doing 6 hours of life-drawing a week, though that may cut back to 3. The hours I’m doing are across 2 separate sessions and a different lecturer for each. I’m thinking of stopping one of the sessions, simply because I don’t think the techniques being dictated in that session are right for me.
We should also be having Cinematography lessons every Thursday, but our lecturer has broken his arm, so that has been postponed until some time in February.
