Low Concept

The last assignment was to come up with a low concept. Here we had to "steal" an idea from one of our classmate's high concepts and create characters for a new story. In this assignment we had to focus on our main character(s).

 

I "stole" an idea from Aske who had a concept where a part of his story is some children playing in a ruin after the world's destruction. That inspired me to an idea of a new story about a boy called Willy. After his city has been completely destroyed (by something?) he gets out of his hiding place only to find out that he is the only survivor and is completely on his own in the ruins of his city. In despair and frustration he uses some of the things from the ruins to build a dog figure, which becomes alive. Now Willy starts building other figures who all starts moving around and acts like humans.

 

 

Here are some of the characters:

 

High concept

The second assignment was to come up with a high concept, which is an "easy sell" concept. We had to find two stories from  a movie/book/song etc. that could "meet" each other in the concept. Then we had to have two genres and write a "what if..."-pitch.

My what if...-pitch sounds like this:
What if animals could adopt their children away?

Genres: Teenage drama and comedy-adventure

The two movies I use as a reference is "Juno" and "Ice Age".

My story is about the spoiled, irresponsible teenage raccoon, Fanny, who accidently becomes pregnant with her flirt, Leon. Her family believes that Fanny is not at all ready to take care of a kid so they decide to take Fanny on a dangerous journey across the North American prairie to give the unborn young to a beaver couple who is willing to adopt it. 

Character and environment sketches:

Concept development with John Kenn Mortensen

This week we are practicing concept development with the Danish artist John Kenn Mortensen who is also educated on TAW and is about to create two comic books and makes really cool monster characters. http://johnkenn.blogspot.dk/

We have had concept development before but this time we have less theory and more practice, which is really great. We are doing three different assignments, which are all about creating concepts for stories.
The first assignment was to come up with a concept for a Nick Cave song "The Curse of Millhaven".

The concept should include story, settings, and character designs.

We should also write a two sentence pitch that shortly describes our concepts.

My pitch:
While looking for ideas for a new poem, the young writer Loretta discovers a side of herself that leads her to great inspiration. Soon this inspiration shows up to be more horrible than anyone in Millhaven can imagine.
Here are my sketches...

The town Millhaven



Loretta as a monster



Character: Loretta

Documentary

For two weeks we had the German artist and cartoonist Kai Pheiffer (http://kaipfeiffer.com) teaching us in documentary. We had one day to go researching on something we could create a 4 page comic about. I spent some hours in Viborg cathedral where I took pictures and drew in my sketchbook so I had "stuff" for my documentary. The result is down below: