Image... Self-initiated Brief... Scene 2

Mary and Dickon in the garden with their tools and seeds, as the garden turns from grey to green

The Making Of...

The final scene

Image... Self-Initiated Brief... Scene 1

 The robin shows Mary the way to find the door to the secret garden hidden under the ivy and the key buried in the soil.

The making of....

The final scene

Image... Self-Initiated Brief... 2d Drawings

My 2d drawings are what I have imagined the five scenes I have chosen to make to look like. They are watercolour with fine writer drawn in to them for detail. I have included photos of before and after I added the water, as well as the text that inspired each image.

• The robin shows the way

Pg 77

"Mary looked at it, not really knowing why the hole was there, and as she looked she saw something almost buried in the newly turned soil. It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass, and when the robin flew up into a tree near by she put out her hand and picked the ring up. It was more than a ring, however; it was an old key which looked as if it had been buried a long time."

• Mary and Dickon bring the garden to life

Pg 171

"They ran from one part of the garden to another and found so many wonders that they were obliged to remind themselves that they must whisper or speak low. He showed her swelling leaf-buds on rose branches which had seemed dead. He showed her ten thousand new green points pushing through the mould. They put their eager young noses close to the earth and sniffed its warmed springtime breathing; they dug and pulled and laughed with low rapture until Mistress Mary’s hair was as tumbled as Dickon’s and her cheeks were almost as poppy red as his."

• Dickon visits Colin's room with the animals

Pg 217

"The young rajah was neither in bed nor on his sofa. He was sitting in an arm-chair and a young lamb was standing by him shaking its tail in feeding-lamb fashion as Dickon knelt giving it milk from its bottle. A squirrel was perched on Dickon’s bent back attentively nibbling a nut. The little girl from India was sitting on a big footstool looking on."

• Colin's first visit to the secret garden

Pg 232

"And it was like that with Colin when he first saw and heard and felt the springtime inside the four high walls of a hidden garden. That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy. Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowded everything it possibly could into that one place."

• Master Craven finds Colin in the secret garden

Pg 315

It was the strangest thing he had ever heard, Archibald Craven thought, as it was poured forth in headlong boy fashion. Mystery and Magic and wild creatures, the weird midnight meeting - the coming of the spring - the passion of insulted pride which had dragged the young rajah to his feet to defy old Ben Weatherstaff to his face. The odd companionship, the play-acting, the great secret so carefully kept. The listener laughed until tears came into his eyes, and sometimes tears came into his eyes when he was not laughing. The Athlete, the Lecturer, the Scientific Discoverer was a laughable, lovable, healthy young human thing. 

[ I have decided not to do this scene, unless I had time at the end, after reviewing how long each 2d image is taking to draw, and then considering the time it will take to create the 3d product. I think the other scenes will be easier to create and look better, as they are more concerning flowers and animals, where this one is mainly focused on people. ]

Image... Self-initatied Brief... Inspiration for Imagery

As the book mentions lots of different flowers and animals, I wanted to find some examples of these, as I wanted to make my drawings accurate to the text, but it is obviously quite hard to draw all these things from the mind. These are all from a google search and have inspired my drawings.

Flowers

Delphinium, Columbines

Campanulas, White Lillies

Rose Bush, Ivy

Iris

Animals

Fox, Badger

Squirrel, Robin

Crow, Lamb

Butterfly, Ladybird 

Frog

Furniture / Props

Ornate chairs and old fashioned wheelchair

Product / Range / Distribution... Chosen Briefs

These are the briefs I have chosen to actually work on. The main core area surrounding all of these briefs is packaging. This is something that I haven't chosen to focus on recently so will be useful to apply my skills to this area.

D&AD//

http://www.dandad.org/awards/student/2012/categories/14/packaging-design

Why I chose it:

- Does seem like a real problem that needs fixing as whisky is seen as a man's drink
- The target audience are targeted to drink wine or vodka mainly so there is space for a new product
- Like the idea of challenging the category conventions
- Would like to create some packaging
- Clear brief with a set outcome but chance to be creative
- Different from anything I've done before
- Stood out from the other briefs

YCN//

M&S - Package the perfect picnic

http://education.ycnonline.com/briefs/view/ms2011/

Why I chose it:

- Different to other things I have done

- One I initially like in DP 1
- Lots of choice in the theme, but set outcomes to stop it being too open
- Can choose target audience
- Design to fit in with their eco policy - something I'm interested in
- I like food!

ISTD//

ISTD

Why I chose it:
- Haven't done much type only work based
- Would like to look at logo design
- Identity is something I'm interested in
- Want to learn more about web and this brief has the opportunity to cover a range of media

OTHER//

Puffin

Why I chose it:

- Would be my ideal job!
- Useful as want to do this in the future

- Well written, easy to understand brief
- Outcome is clear
- Think I could show off my skills well with this brief
- Mix of type and image
- Children's books are something I am really interested in
- Enjoyed Grimm's fairytales when I was younger
- Out of all the briefs I found from other websites, this one stood out and was the clearest