PAGES AND PROGRESS

My desk has been covered in trimmings, glue and cutting tools for the past two weeks and I am so tired. I just hope that what I've made will be good enough. I've been straining to get this ready to print, but I'm not sure if it's the best it could be.

I've so much admiration for Edgar that I want this book/print/house to live up to his legend. I really want it to be atmospheric, authentic and from the same world as Poe's mysteries.

At the time when Edgar was living on Amity Road, he was quite poor and living  in a very cramped house with Elizabeth (his grandmother), Maria (his Aunt) and Virginia (his 10 year old cousin, whom he married when she was aged 13). I have concerns that these interiors are too posh for such a household and may not be accurate, but I don't think that impacts too much on the overall 'feel' of the spooky house, especially since the reader decides what goes into the house and where they fit.

The reader's interpretation is vital because their response builds the inside of the house and builds the story.

Accidental eerie ghost trees! Really love this page. This will be lots of fun to animate since it has depth and layers to it. I can have crows flying through the trees, characters walking deep into the woods etc.

I've been working hard on this brief.
I do feel like I have neglected other modules because of the impending print slot but I do intend to make up that time. I haven't blogged as much as I would have liked to. I haven't been reflecting enough to look at what I've done each day and really SEE IT ALL together. So it's quite strange to see it all now, at the very near end of printing pictures (the submission is a while away, but I want time to dig my teeth into moving pictures). It's all coming together.