NEXT-GEN Nescot week 2 - Storyboard Artists(1) "Edward Gorey"

Edward Gorey's website - http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

During week 1 (of year 2) we were tasked with finding 3 illustrators or artists that we like and I chose
Edward Gorey who was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.
He characteristicly made pen-and-ink drawings that often depicted vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.

Edward Gorey mostly used the style of surrealism in a much darker, back and white setting with disturbing imagery. For example, Edward Gorey created the book 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' which details each of the alphabetical letters as a separate child's death as seen above.

Edward Gorey most commonly used line-work and pen, this gave his illustrations a much more eye catching appearance and allowed the more detailed or dense areas of the image to receive a larger amount of shade or to maintain more detail. This can be seen in the book:

"The GashlyCrumb Tinies"

Buy the book at - https://goreystore.com/collections/edward-gorey-books/products/edward-gorey-the-gashlycrumb-tinies-book

There are examples of his work when he often used more colour but with a minimalistic colour scheme.  He made multiple books like this and had significantly different themes than his other work. An example of this would be:

"He Was There From The Day We Moved In"

Buy the book at - https://goreystore.com/collections/edward-gorey-books/products/rhoda-levine-he-was-there-from-the-day-we-moved-in-book

NEXT-GEN Nescot week 1 - Storyboarding (movies)

During week 1 of year 2 we were tasked with creating a 20 second storyboard for a movie of our choice. For this task, I created a storyboard for the famous shower scene from the movie Psycho. In this scene the killer attacks (and kills) one of the main protagonists (leading character from the film) in the shower.

Suprisingly, throughout this scene there are only 7 directions that are shown in the 20 seconds I had chosen. This made my storyboarding much easier.

Storyboard can be seen below

I believe that I did well on my storyboard project and have shown the key movements and scene changes. However, if I could improve upon my assignment I would increase the amount of detail in the first 3 frames because I only really showed an outline rather than any distinguishable features.