Short Story
My short story followed the path of stories that have “un-endings”. The ending revealed that my character was being watched and studied because my character was created to be a computer. I then developed him into romance (which I picked eventually), Dystopian (which I didn’t pick because it was arguably already close to dystopian), and Comedy (which I did not pick because of the lack of dialogue in the storyboard frames). You can view my short story and variations and genre research here: Short Story
Defining and Planning my Frames
I really wanted to focus on color and compositional elements for this project. I made sure that what I wanted was defined as opposed to being random. My process for these decisions can be viewed here: Study for Narrative Storyboard
I found that futurism and surrealism supported the mood of this story because the girl fell in love with an intuitive AI (which seems like a very possible thing to happen in the distant future). I wanted surrealism to be involved as well because I wanted to capture how love makes one feel everything just a little bit stronger. When you are in love you seem to notice everything a little bit more (especially surrounding the person you are in love with).
Final
This project was a great opportunity to challenge my planning skills and execution skills. My personal goal for projects this semester is to not go off the beaten path. Usually I ideate as I go, but I want to be able to ideate and then go. I want the end result of a project to resemble what I initially planned for it to resemble. I am proud of myself for completing the project in a very thorough manner, and hope to continue to develop that skill. You can view my final with the final story description outlined with it here: Narrative Style final