Being Human: Idea Development

As I am need to go from four to three characters to follow the freud Trio. I had already decided that Simon was going to be the character I dropped but Simon's arm concept is fear. One of my favourite concepts, but looking at the other emotions fear is odd one out. As ID and the Super Ego are opposites of each other. This is why I decided that Kevin(Joy) should be the ID and Steven(Sadness) should be the Super Ego. This is because of Joy being the opposite of sadness. When it came to deciding whom was going to be the Ego, my chooses were Fear and Anger. Opposites of each other, but as the Ego is meant to resolve the conflicts between two the ID and Super Ego. I have chosen Rob (Anger), as when your angry you can still function and if you think of fear, someone that is scared/ fearful it can make you unable to function. Fight or flight, Anger would fight and Fear would run away. As The Ego is the leader I needed to choose a emotion that could take on this role.

But the Fear's arm concept might still be used, for example a Tv report showing the first case of people having mutations. The person being chased down and loads of cameras on the person. This experience would make anyone scared, so for that person to have the Fear arm could work.

I am thinking to have the story not just told straight to the audience but for the audience to make out/ interpret the story for them selfs. I am wanting the characters having the mutations to be a secret to the audience at first with the maybe the Tv report being the first case the audience sees.

The mutation only effect those with a domermit Emotion. The reason for the mutations is due to a nuclear power plant having a meltdown and leaking into the water source. The way I'm going to tell the audience about how the mutation is spread is by having a Tv report saying " Scientists are still recommending the pubic to drink bottle water and to refrain from consuming water from the taps". The reason i want the report to include still is so that you can tell its been awhile.

I am thinking the film should be around 5 mins and be open ended. So that the film is like a Tv pilot, enough story to get you hocked but not too much so that it leaves you wanting more.

The film will be set in one room and will end when they decide to leave. But each character will have a different look due to the surrounding, lighting, effects and placement.  For example Kevin (joy) being sat by the window keeping the scene bright like his personality and having Steven being on the other side of the room were its darker. With the placement like this, I would think having Rob in the middle between them would be best. Preventing conflicts between Steven and Kevin, also to keep this Trio shown in a visual way.

Being Human: Digital Arm Concepts

I have farer developed my designs, I am yet to narrow the characters down to three but here are the arm concepts for them.
Joy's concept, a blade that resembles light. To note the mutations are all formed from a material harder then steel.

The arms have a passive state of a regular arm but can be triggered into to its weapon state by the user's emotions.

sadness' concept, The arm looks as it is flowing like water. As the arm can move like liquid metal.

Fear's concept, razor sharp claws with spikes running all the way along the arm as defences.

Being Human: Arm concepts

I have chosen the designs  I am wanting to farer develop, I have drawn up larger versions of the design like I have done before with anger.

For sadness I choose this design as i thought it looked free flowing like water and I think it could be used well as a defence. I think of sadness as failing so that i wanted to create a design that can protect those around them. 

For Joys design, I thought the other design was too basic and didn't think it could useful. So I went with the sword arm design as I think of knights fighting to fight to protect what they care about.















 For Fear the design I choose i felt it represented what fear is all about, being in a spiked shell. Trying to escape and aggressive if approached.

Being Human: First character Concepts

I have done rough concept drawing using my chosen arm concepts, but because I've done that i have four character. I will be narrowing down to three so that I can make the characters a Freud Trio. The designs are based roughly of myself.
The Main character is called Rob, he is represents anger and Ego. The leader of the group

Rob's Best friend Steven, he represents Sadness and Super Ego. despite being sadness the word of reason

The third wheel Simon, He represents Fear and most likely the character I shall be dropping as he doesn't fit into the Freud Trio. 

The friend you can always relay on Kevin, he represents Joy and ID. Kevin and Steven may not always get along (due to ID and Super Ego conflicting) but friends to the end.

Being Human: First Arm concepts

With the use of Plutchik's wheel of emotions, i have used the links of the colours to the emotion I am trying to materialise. For example Sadness is blue, Anger red and Fear is green.
These are my first concepts on what the arms could look like. I will narrow down the designs to one per emotion, to then farer its design, like I've done for anger already. There is a bigger concept drawing of anger which i did before my digital concept which shall be on the bottom of this post.
My next step is to draw up the digital versions.

Being Human- concept and exploration

With the use of using a piece of my own life drawing as a basic. I have drawn my first concept of the arm i am wanting to create. With the goal being to make it seem mutated and distorted in a way, using wheel of emotions to base colour on and how it shaped.

I started with anger and this is the result:-

I showed my concept drawing around and told people the meaning of why the hand is all distorted. From showing people I was told to look into the 1982 "The Thing"

The Thing is a horror film in which a American research base is listed by a alien that assimilate Anything it touches and has the ability to disguise its self as a human (wolf in sheep's clothing). The alien like my concept distorts its limbs to attack. I am yet to watch this film. I was automatic drawing, after I was done I then went back tiding up this was the result.