Visual Storytelling: Pitch

After completing the sessions on the 3 possible briefs I have decided to do the Visual Storytelling project. I will draw inspiration and ideas from from the other briefs where I can to strengthen the project. Wordless picture narratives are the type of narrative I enjoy viewing the most and it has the strongest link to my personal career ambitions.

Pitch: I want to create a wordless picture narrative all about the power and love of belonging to a family. I want to explore how family dynamics and how your ‘chosen family’ may change overtime. The narrative will have a fun and warm tone as I want it to be a celebration of family. It will be a viewpoint narrative as it will be a chronological journey through 1 main character’s life. I plan for the characters to all be animals, specifically the wildlife you’d see around England such as foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels. I think this will help make the narrative more fun and visually engaging. I plan to creat 20 images, so 5 double page spreads probably in landscape orientation. Each page will depict a stage in the main characters like and a moment where they felt love from someone or a group that they can call his family. In terms of the visuals I want to use watercolour with little details of pen and coloured pencil to depict these beautiful natural scenes to try create a world that these animals live in. I will be taking inspiration from the likes of Beatrix Potter, Luisa Rivera, Evgenia Malina and more.