Still working through Design & found a few films I could watch

At the present moment I am still trying to snowball my way through design and at the moment working on the inhabitants of each dimension 

while searching of films i could watch and take notes in I found four in particular :
- The Prophecy (1995)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114194/
- Dogma (1999)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
- Constantine (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360486/
- Legion (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/
- Spawn (1997)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(film)

Might also look in comic/ anime series called Spawn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(comics) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(TV_series) 

I have seen bits of Constantine and I have seen Dogma many a time but I have never took notes through them for a purpose but now I will, it is very tempting to just go watch Legion and not work on my design but technically I am behind according to my timeline, at the moment according to my timeline I should be in Production working on what.. my 5th maybe 6th chapter

If I do watch any of these films I'll take notes while watching them, these notes would include things about:
- comparing my angels and demons to how they're represented in the film
- What is the basic plot line
- visually how it shows the story 
- how it relates biblically
- censorship - sensitivity 
- portrayal of biblical figures for example God and Jesus 
-  

As usual I'll upload a document eventually to here in relation to this

Second Presentation (20/12/2012)

I have just sat back down from my FMP presentation 2, wasn't half bad, I didn't keep track with my script for my presentation I stuttered and my confidence wasn't great either. My feedback for the presentation wasn't half bad they agreed with me in I need more confidence, I think next time I need a script to follow

- I will add a link for the presentation later on here

By the way, Happy Christmas (if you celebrate it) and Happy Apocalypse, some part of me hopes the Mayans were right

Update (10/01/2013)

I got my feedback from tutors today, they mostly all said roughly the same thing, some were more harsh than others but it is constructive criticism after all is what it is. I'll upload them if I ever get my hands on the feedback sheets again to scan in and upload to here. 

Feedback from Peers

- In depth recap

- Plenty of research

- Detailed examples

 

- Need more self-confidence

- Presentations could do with more pictures and less text

- Generally more information about my title: Deaths Apprentice

I will take this feedback into consideration but some of the feedback like "more pictures and less text" this can't simply be done because this isn't the way my FMP works until I get to the right stage. As well as this my FMP is mostly text based and I will be working on Word for most of it, so their simply can't be any images unless it supports or is what I'm writing about. 

Not updated for a while and today (07/12/12)

Not updated this blog for a while now, just a quick update really, just to say that nothing is going as planned and at the current moment like the other people in my class we have all put our FMPs to the side and worked on our looming and over hanging assignment deadlines instead of our FMP, especially myself, I'm still in the design stage and still collecting images for my mood board of the 3 separate worlds/ realms/ dimensions (what ever they're called), link below to what I've done: 

- Link to mood board of what the worlds are going to look like (updated) 

But today, (today being 07/12/2012, about what 14 days till our supposed doomsday (yes in believe in THAT)) I was told that I should update my project proposal for any changes so in terms of me: the timetable, I uploaded the first draft what 19 October I would check the blog post around that date for the 1st draft, but anyway I'll upload the second draft today to Google Docs at some point and attach it to a link below:

- Link to the project proposal Second draft 

As well today I was told my next presentation will be on the 20/ 12/ 12 and will be titled: Feasibility (not started it, yet but I will eventually)

Design, not done

I know I said the design stage would be done for today but lately I've had a lot of assignments due in this week so I've been working on them as of late, in these weeks I've had 2 tasks for 2 assignments in so I've been working on them in the next two following weeks I have another 2 full assignments in which are very large in workload I have to do for them. To be honest for what I've heard from my fellow students the're in the same boat as me: that boat being pause on FMP work and work on assignments then go back to FMP.

Anyway, I'll upload a link to a document for design I've been working on for these past weeks, its not much but its something and that's better than nothing. Evaluating my work efficiency it has not been very up and coming as I would've liked it to have been and I didn't get all my work done I would've prophesied I would get done. 

- Link to mood board of what the worlds are going to look like

This is the only document I have done so far but I plan to do more on this document and start my others. 

Not started design, yet, but I am going to today

As of yet I haven't started my design stage, yet, which in fact I should have by now but due to the fact that I haven't sat down with my tutor and discussed this process I have no idea what to do for this process. 

Turns out I have to do something I was planning on scrapping which was my character designs because in the design stage I have to show what my worlds that I have created are going to look like which my own mind has delved into, I think I wrote down what I envisaged for each world on either my timeline or initial document with the lore on, 

So it looks like the character design stage is back on the menu:

Documents that I need to include in my design stage are:
- mood board of what the worlds are going to look like (places in each plane of existence, 

- mood board of what the people are going to look like (inhabitants of each world, 

-  the research document of image references for each character would also be included in this

- (anything else I can think of will be added to this blog post) 

Everything I have done so far in my Research

Today I will link everything I have done so far for my research and in thus it will show how much I have done and need to do and how my on-going research is looking. 


things to talk about when reviewing documents:
- what went well
- what went wrong
- did everything go as planned
- finished or near completion? or On-going? 

Overall anything I need to do extra or I found out I need to do? 

Documents that are being linked are as follows:

-  Writers that have inspired me in my writing

What went well in this was that this document was of my own doing I started and I felt like you the reader of my work should know where I got my inspiration from hence thus why I started the document above, even though this above seems like little it is one of my many on-going documents. I don't know if everything went as planned with this I think the idea was that when I'm writing characters bios and writing the history I remembered that I wanted a dark theme and feel to it like how there is in JK Rowlings Casual Vacancy but I want a developed characters like Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant. (touch wood) nothing has gone wrong of sorts with this document, yet. 

-  Comparing writing styles

With this document I started it late hence with there is more a less no quantity and to me is un-finished, I think the only thing that went well with this document is that I was clear what I wanted to do. 

-  Image reference/ mood board for Characters

What went well was that I had a clear idea of what characters I wanted pictures of, again what in this document seems little is also on-going so the quantity will increase over time. Again I don't know if everything went as planned with this because I didn't really plan this document, if I had an idea of a character that looks like how I picture my characters I would find a picture of them and put them in. Again (touch wood) nothing has gone wrong of sorts with this document, yet. 

-  Research stories in different mediums

What went well with this was not much, I more a less started this and the document below at the same time and I got carried away with the document below and just forgot about this one, all this as well it what went wrong with this. I didn't plan this document out as such I just did it as it came to me, as well this document to me is un-finished.
(Update - 04/06/13 : Finished and sent of, new link added)

-  How each character is represented in different societies

This document above is my largest and the one I spent my most time on so far, what went well about this document is that it has a lot of quantity and a lot of information, what went wrong is that I didn't get it fully finished in time and the sections about God and The Devil are un-finished. I think everything went as planned with this because I knew what I wanted to do but the downside is that I was late starting the last two sections. 

Overall I think I focused too much on one document and on others to less and some documents I started to late. 

My Research deadline

The fact of the matter is that I have mainly worked on one document so far and if you compare that amount of work I've done to what I need to do its not alot and I am ashamed of myself but I will upload everything what I have done for my research so far on Friday, hence Fridays are usually spent in class doing my FMP all day so I should have time to upload everything then go a head with my Design, oh what joys and fun.