Thursday 4 February 2021

 Before Continuing


I realised whilst making this storyboard that it would not be the only way to achieve what I wanted from the scenarios, so I will show drawn examples of this before going ahead with my current plan. I also have to get sketching a lot of examples of weathering and rusting on my object to understand how it will change as it is not just to be the scenario that develops but also the model itself to be in the correct context.

By the end I currently hope to, maybe, only have a stump left where the utility pole once was.

 Storyboard Sheet



A sample of scenarios 1-5. A couple have been included twice because I'm not entirely happy with their layout each example is different from the other. As I say though these are only digital roughs....
I will hopefully get on to print some of the colour sections soon, showing how the sky or foliage would look when printed.



 Storyboard 1-5


no.1 'Installation'

no.2 'Light Use'


no.3 'broken in'


no.4 'Distressed'


no.5 'Forgotten/Re-invented'

These are the storyboard images so far, of course only rough digital mock ups of what the prints could look like and all will probably change heavily before completion but I'm happy with the outcome this far. Having the actual model of the Utility pole gives me complete freedom and control of the angle of the scenario and possible background layout it has given these collaged images depth which is something my work of this kind has sorely lacked in the past.




 Storyboard 2



I made this to show that with each scenario the focus on the utility pole would tighten with every scenario, the viewer will be brought closer to the object with every stage until we reach scenario 5, at which point the camera will begin to move back to its starting point. This is to show that there is  no real end as we often like to prophesise, actually it will just start anew.


This is scenario no.1 'installation'. For this I thought it would be good to show it in a setting of a power grid, which I photographed down the road from my parents house. I feel this shows the objects original purpose and is easily understandable as the beginning of the objects journey.


no.2 'Light Use'- in a rural area to show them as we regularly see them, out of the way. Experimenting with clouds and how I would draw them as they're exceptionally hard to photograph, particularly at this time of year. I'm also looking at which side the light or colour in this scenario could come from and and whatt shade it would be. Also suggesting a small inclusion of graffiti as I don't believe it takes all that long for these things t be carved or drawn on.



scenario no.3 'broken in'- looking at more of the same, cloudscapes (but possibly more violent and surrounding than in the last one), begininning to look at sections of heavy graffiti and deep marks of heavy vandalism, thinking of including the drawing, or maybe photograph, of a run down building exterior, something that really suggests wear and places in its now relevant urban landscape.


scenario no.4 'distress'- at this stage, I can say with certainty, we're in the future. I think it's arguable that the previous image was but don't wan't to say with absolution, this one however should appear obviously, futuristic. I found photos of abandoned buildings and those in extremely poor shape, then started playing around with ways of displaying overgrown foliage. I also thought, in the section of architecture I plan to draw, maybe place a single silhouette of a person, signify a stranger in the location? I don't want my futures to be completely void of  human presence.



scenario no.5 'Re-invention'- at this stage I kept my rough of the scene itself loose, throwing in an ancient ruin I photographed and some marshy land under it. At this point I expect the object itself will hav changed so drastically that it will be hard to plan to any great degree what the scene is to look like. What I do know, is that I want this as my turning point in the series. I want there to be signs of visitors to the object in the form of it being used as something other than it's original purpose, maybe a camp for some humans, a nest for some birds or something similar. From here I want the camera to begin moving away from the object again giving a fuller view of the area once more.


 Storyboard Idea


I decided that a storyboard would be the best way to get my idea across and explain what it is I plan to do with these models.


I started with a very basic 1 page rough of what I wanted from these models.


I began fleshing it out in roughs taking notes of quotations I found that helped my understanding of my plan

"Scenarios are neither forecasts nor visions of the future, but analytical explorations of possibilities"- Eva Horn (The Future of Disasters)


It was at this point I realised that rough storyboarding wouldn't really cut it. I had a lot I needed to figure out about each scenario and needed to properly plan as opposed to wing it from some low level roughs.










 Materials



Where I could, I tried using recycled materials, here for instance I took apart an old toy drone that was broken and removed the wiring and the magnetised weights that allow it to fly these became the wires and pegs on the utility pole.


Here also are some lego pieces I sanded down and used as the cable connectors.


For the main body of the Utility pole and the transformer I used wooden dowel which had been lying around the house for quite some years and styrene sheet that I had ordered in.


Utility Pole Model











Images of the Utility Pole after completion, quite happy with the turnout, I am currently putting together the phone box and dumpster too. The model was completed to 1/12 scale making it around, I think, 45cm high.

 

 Utility Pole



Although very faint, these are rough technical drawings of a Utility pole I plan to build next.