Poster Three Process: Fears

#process #DES101

"The theme we were given for poster 3 was to create a story board or app wire frame. With the guidelines being to create a storyboard/wire frame containing 12 frames and showing at least 3 key moments (for example, set the scene, develop the plot, the reveal) Using the guidelines I created this storyboard poster called, "Fear".

With my chosen haiku, "A Poppy Blooms" composed by Japanese artist and poet Katsushika Hokusai, I wanted to explore the theme of Overcoming I got from it.

"I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, rewrite, and then

A poppy blooms"

The theme I got from Hokusai's poem was Overcoming, to succeed in dealing with a problem or difficulty. Facing our fears and breaking through them in order to succeed and move forward. We face many issues throughout and I portray this with a common phobia that is believed to affect 75% of the population, Glassophobia the fear of public speaking.

I used pigment liners and Adobe Photoshop to create my third poster.

My storyboard starts (reading vertically) the scene in the shadowed darkness with a white man looking troubled and confused of where he is. Breaking through the smoke, a dark figure comes and knocks the white guy down and attempts to end him. The white man finds strength and punches the dark figure down and then the scene transitions to reality, where we see a man getting ready to do public speaking grasping his hand showing a sign of confidence and determination as we see him get up and smile in the end.

The battle that takes place is an internal struggle, he is having this fight in his mind. The darkness surrounding him being his fears and the dark figure the embodiment of his fears (as shown with the words FEAR written in the darkness and the dark figure). This internal battle he is having can also be seen today where we also have internal battles. In his case, his battle being the fear of public speaking.

He is shown to gain control over his fear when he is shown to fight back the dark figure and one punch him. This showing him starting to overcome his fear. We see this in the absence of the darkness that was around him in the first section. He looks down at his hand (POV) as the scene then fades away to reality where he is ready to say his speech.

What I was trying to show in this storyboard was that we can overcome any fears. Like the white man in the story, we too can overcome any struggles or fears we face every day. Though we get knocked down we still have the power to get back up and fight back, to move forward and succeed."

This is my third poster/storyboard

Faculty of Design, University of Auckland (2020). DES 101 Week 2 Lecture Slides, Retrieved from https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/45443/pages/week-2-lecture?module_item_id=809493

Katsushika Hokusai (2020). A Poppy Blooms, Retrieved from https://www.readpoetry.com/10-vivid-haikus-to-leave-you-breathless/