Project 4. Graphic Novel.

For the fourth project in my time class we were supposed to make a graphic novel. It was supposed to contain only 4 pages including the front and back cover. We had to come up with a concept. The concept I chose was inspired by the movie enchanted but I tweaked the story line a little bit:

First slide : This is a story of a princess who was happy in her fantasy land and suddenly one day she is transported to this alien world for her that was New York. The image of the princess who has fallen from the skies which is actually her castle.

Second Slide: Shows her walk through adjusting and finding her place in the new world, as there was no other option. So the huge staircase shows the transition of the princess into a professional city women who finds her peace in her work and family.

Third slide: This shows the end of the stairway that leads to the fashion runway where she walks down the ramp wearing her own design. She was very happy, but the twist in the story was now that she found her peace in the city as well as she walks her dream the runway is cracking up and she's going to fall right back into the fantasy land (which was not her home anymore, not where she wanted to go back too)

Fourth slide: Shows her falling back into the fantasy land and the quote "But you belong where you came from.."

This was actually personal to me as we take time to fit into the new places we keep travelling to, and then its already time to leave that place you start to call home. Happiness is unstable so cherish it till it lasts.

For my character, she was in the world where she grew up in and everything around her was perfect as the reason they called it fantasy land, soon she got a reality check and her comfortable life was snatched away and she was put into a city and place she had never been or heard of, an unknown world.
But slowly she learned the new ways of living she fought for survival, she found her pleasure in designing the clothes she was aware about, the clothes she wore at home. She found her true love yet again and he was someone else than the one before so that clearly meant you find love more than once. She juggled work, love and family perfectly. She was living the dream of hers but then as destiny has it, it was time for her to go back to her comfortable mundane life.

In my critique, students loved the concept and they appreciated the third page where I put in a lot of work. The only issue was that I should have tried to put a background in the second page and the pixilation on the prints should have not been there.

I was thrilled to do this project it made me learn to make stories in my head, use photoshop and in design. All in all, one of my favourite so far!