What do you intend to do and why?
Investigate the evolution of heroes and villains/gods and monsters, throughout history and how their messages, appearances and purposes have changed over time.
To understand why we as a society put our faith and our fears into idols, and how different socieities create different versions of these idols.
Understand our human dependence on fiction.
I intend to make a book/short publication with some accompanying posters.
THEMES/SUBJECTS:
General themes
Fictional idols - gods/monsters/heroes
How we deal with the events of real life by representing it in fiction
How our perception of idols has changed, real or fiction
I will use these themes to create a book that uses a simple narrative based on history that educates the reader on different incarnations of similar characters throughout history - e.g. the evolution of Thor from Nordic God to colourful comic book character to cinematic action star.
Specific subjects
The development of religion into myth/fantasy and the reverse of this process.
The nature of certain icons/symbols to represent certain morals.
What stories represent and why we always feel the need to write them.
PRACTICAL/CONCEPTUAL APPLICATION
Specific disciplinary area
Character design
Environment design
Posters & books
Audience/contexts
Fans of literature and comic books
People interested in theories about human thinking/morals
Production/distribution methods
Create posters, books, zines - visual guides with accompanying texts
CONTEXTUAL REFERENCES
Illustrators/designers/studios
Branch into advertisers that use well known characters
James Roberts/Alex Milne - representation of Marxism and the Russian Revolution in Transformers comics
Brecht Vandenbroucke - using visual narrative alone to tell a story
Alan Moore
Frank Miller
CREATIVE SKILLS
Develop digital work
Rough ideas more thoroughly before settling on one
Different methods of print - digital, lino, mono
KEY TEXTS
Transformers: More than Meets the EyeSuperman: Birthright/Red Son
DC Kingdom Come
The Dark Knight Returns
Greek Mythology
Norse Mythology
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