Voice for the Voiceless:Cinderella Redesign
Design Proposal:
Final Mood Board and Material Board:
Mood Board
My mood board is mainly showing the atmosphere at Cinderella’s house. The color use reflects how harsh Cinderella’s stepmother treated Cinderella. In their house, it was always very dark. The places showed on the mood board are the settings where my plots would happen: the practice room where the stepmother read the invitation for them, the long serious stairs where Cinderella had to clean everyday, the attic room where the stepsisters prepared dress for her, and the dark hall way where the stepsisters secretly made their plan.
Material Board
My material board shows the characters that would appear in my storyboard: the cruel stepmother, the stepsisters, who were friends with Cinderella, the cat Lucifer, who hears the stepsisters’ plan so tried to obstruct them, and Cinderella’s animal friends who helped Cinderella make the ball gown.
Project sketches and plan:
Rough sketches (storyboard first draft):
At the beginning, I sketched 22 drawings for my storyboard. When I was organizing them, I deleted the last 2 because the plots I designed would make more sense without them. When I was water coloring the drawings (the parts where the stepsisters throwing out the fabrics that they thought may be helpful for Cinderella), I noticed that the colors of the fabrics don’t match, so I reordered the four drawings. I think this is the advantage of working with storyboard. The drawings are separate, so I could add, delete, and reorder the scenes to refine the plots.
Refined sketches:
Process:
Outlining:
It is very important to choose the right pen for outlining. Since I was using watercolor, I have to make sure the outline had already dried before I color them.
Also, at this stage, I had to check if the plots were complete–if I had all the drawings. Once I added in new drawings after I started coloring, there was a risk that the new drawing’s color didn’t match the old ones.
Watercoloring:
Coloring skin color
Coloring the same hair/dress/cat for all drawings
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When I color the drawings, I colored the parts on each piece that have the same color together, so the same dress, hand, or person’s hair will shows the same color.
Coloring large area
One challenge I had when I was coloring my drawings was the large area coloring. It’s always a challenge for me. I had trouble making one big area looked even, so I had to color the same area several times. At last, the water made the paper not flat.
Final Storyboard:
The stepmother assigned Cinderella extra work so Cinderella couldn’t go to the ball. The stepsisters are listening and feel sorry for Cinderella.
Cinderella was disappointed because she won’t have time to make a dress for the ball.
Looking down to the stairs, she has too much housework to do.
On the other hand, the stepmother leaves the girls to get ready for the ball.
Drizella and Anastasia are planning something for Cinderella.
They move their clothes secretly into the room without letting their mom knows.
The cat Lucifer is watching them.
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They throw out the pieces they think maybe helpful for Cinderella.
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The pile on the floor is getting bigger.
Cinderella finds an old dress that she can re-fashion it for the ball, but she doesn’t have time to do it. She leaves the room with sorrow.
Her friends decide to help her.
They find the fabric pieces the stepsisters leave on the floor.
Drizella and Anastasia peep into the room to see if things are going well.
They join the birds and mice.
Their surprise is ready. They can’t wait for Cinderella opening the gift.
For each scene, the shot style and camera angle vary from close-up to long shot, from eye level to low angle to avoid repetition. However, for the cat Lucifer, both of the two scenes are close-up of its front. If I could revise the story board, I should change one of them into a medium shot or a three shot with the mice. Besides that, some drawings have background color, but some don’t. I should unit them and make them more finished.
