We: Building inspirations

Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China

Biodome, Montreal

We: Audio Inspirations

0 - DVD Title look

9 - intro

1 - when he's at peace in the beginning / O-90

2 - the music produced by their music machine / maybe more 8-bit?

2.5 - more popcornesque music

3 - when he's growing more confused

4 - relating to I-330s attitude/rebelliousness

5 - D-503s obsession with I-330

6 - Traveling in an aero

7 - after the wall falls (intro reverb)

7.5 - outside the green wall

8 - the glass jar (mind wiping I-330)

9 - empty streets after the Operation

10 - closure

We: Book Drawing Sketches

Here are some more thoughts on the "We book" It's going to be a book expository, the kind that puts the source book into a variety of contexts. A historical, politico, scientific assessment, performed visually at the expense of narrative. As book, the layout of a single page is someone tied to the layout on the next page. They can complement or deviate, but too much of either concept might look forced. It will have some drawings, but somehow try to keep them looking futuristic without looking like a Captain Sky album cover.

Colors


Personae


Math


Integral site


Timeline


Glass jar


City


Authors/Related authors

We: Book Specifications

According to the ourhubbub link for scrapbookers, these are the required image sizes:

Cover: 3580px x 3025px

Pages: 3325px x 2651px

Pentacular measure selection from Kuler:

More colors:

Saffron

We Mind Map:

Brave New World around the corner

I just got a banner ad in Yahoo mail for a situation where "Child forgot his homework"? "All you have is tears?" "Here's a drug for you..." Do people really think this is the right path? Every medication has consequences. Here's why people need to read science fiction... to at least hypothesize what the effect of their actions might be.

We: Fonts

Looked at some futuristic fonts for the We book. I settled on these:

Circuit

Pole Position

Republika

Rough Draft

Space Age

Also, it would be interesting to look at treating the fonts with a "lightsaber glow", similar to: this video intro.

We: A Visual Interpretation

For my graphic design course at MCAD, we need to create a printed media composition. We have only two more weeks to create the final project so I figure I'd better start working on it. I'm not that creative under pressure, I need time to weed out the bad ideas and tweak the good ones.

I wasn't definite on a direction so I gave the instructor, Jenny Tondora, several ideas to play with. She responded that she liked the idea of the book/perhaps droid version of an artistic word book on the concept of Zamiatin's We, a ground-breaking distopian novel written in the 1920s.

I've long thought this would be a good novel to make into a Motion Picture, but the pitch I need is to develop a storyboard to go along with a screenplay for it. With this assignment, I don't have time to develop the whole storyboard, but perhaps instead come up with the pitch, the narrative preface to what the work is about.

First step: finding my copy of We I received two years ago at Christmas from Quincy (One book in a house full of books is sometimes time-consuming and stressful).

Second step: installing photoshop/tablet software on the laptop.

Third step: thinking about the kinds of layout I'd like to do.

Creative/artistic elements

1. Words/quotes - quotes from the book, settings, persona, literary comparison to similar works

2. Silhouettes - images silhouettes of people white on black, strong contrast, using photoshop to

3. Ideation - do I have time to compose some brain maps such as using Freemind?

4. Font gathering/focusing/selection

5. Futuristic objects/buildings/cities

Futuristic Inspirations:

Furniture: Zaha Hadid

Cities: Ralph McQuarrie

Vehicles: Masarati - Trimontane, Masarati Birdcage