Final Design Element - History of Rock

Final Design Element - History of Rock
Ok firstly I just want to say how my Comic Book strip is going, pretty well anyway, however I did have the idea of having the comic book on a 1st person view, with them a walking view as a tribute to one of the greatest videos ever.


The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' my favourite song ever, and I thought that it would work well for every time the reader of the comic book to look up to turn the page that he's walked into somebody. Therefore having a very nice tribute in my work and kind of showing that the reader is so involved in the comic that they don't care what happens. I found however that this didn't really work so instead I've decided to just stick with a flat 2D comic, I know that you're probably wondering what this has to do with my final element of my work?

Well I liked the idea of using the Verve's video so much that I decided to do an entire piece on it, how this was going to work however I wasn't sure yet, until I was flicking through the TV the other day and found a repeat of a brilliant show 'The Seven Ages of Rock' a brilliant show watch it but it's basically about the evolution of music from blues, to rock and how it got to today. So my idea is to do a piece about the evolution of rock music through the ages and all of the key fugues in it.

No easy task, the street however will be the visual metaphor in this case for time and the viewer will gradually be walked along it. I also get to do a monster of a soundtrack, my mate has a very good mixing program so I was thinking that I can mix snippets of one song into another to give a very brief view of how music has developed chronologically. So yeah, I've decided to get rid of the first person view and instead opt for a panned view of a street just to make it a bit easier to animate. Another brave step I'm going to take is the look of it, I've been a bit worried lately that I'm using Jamie Hewlett too much so this time I'm going to use something very different........
Paddington Bear by Michael Bond.



Not only is it a quintessentially British thing I also love the look of it how everything is built up from separate layers giving it a 3D look, and how everything has been drawn onto card. It's a risk but one I want to take to diversify my work more. I'm going to use aspects of different Artist work too but this will be main focus, and I think it will work really well for a view of a street. Another thing I want to look at is the use of colour, I don't want it to be purely black and white, although it could be like that at the start to represent black and white televisions, because I need to get something across in my animation to show the movement of time other than the change in music.