Poem narrative.

After having a go at the "Jack and Jill" story board, Paul then gave us a Poem each, which he believed we would do great with making up a picture story for the poem. 

The poem i received name was called  "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner " this poem is about people sailing for the first time, and what it was like for the sailors, i started by drawing my story by hand, the then scanning it into Photoshop to then colour the images in, i went with just on block colour for the slides to made the story look old and worn out. 

The Fair Breeze Blew, The White Foam Flew, The Furrow Followed Free:

this is the first slide of my poem narrative, i went with this style of drawing for two reasons really, the first i love drawing cartoon pictures, they are more fun to draw and then look at after you have finished and the second reason is that by drawing things in a cartoon manner i can give objects and inanimate objects have emotions and tracts that people have. 

i have added the poem on a scroll on the side of the page, I  decided to add the poem onto a scroll, as i am going for an old look and feel, and the oldest form of documents where on scrolls and was used around the time, they first sailed the seas.  

We Were The First That Ever Burst Into That Silent Sea. 

This is the second slide of my story board, as i was making it all cartoony and making inanimate objects have personality, the first thing i thought of when i saw this part of the poem, was a person diving into the water off a diving board, and as the poem is on about sailing, i made the boat look like a diver hitting the water. 

Again putting the scroll on the side of the image, out of the way and easy to read. 

Dawn Dropt The Breeze, The Sails Dropt Down, Twas Sad As Sad Could Be;

i made the sea crying to show the emotion of the sea being sad and showing the feeling of the sailors, i also made the sound of a crying person look like the water effect just to show they are linked and it looked better following the same pattern. 

And We Did Speak Only To Break The Silence Of The Sea! All In A Hot And Copper Sky, The Bloody Sun, At Noon,

once again i made the sea have all the emotion, by shh'ing the sailors as they shell the sea, the hammer is showing they have broken the silence and not having a care in the world, as it is an adventure, and an adventure is never small and quite. 

Right up Above The Mast Did Stand, No Bigger Than The Moon. 

the top image, is the moon i went for just for the fact it is more cartoony and has more human emotion then the second picture does, the first moon is based on a chav getting in to a fight, and starting on something or (in this case) some one, i made the sailor look scared as it matched what the poem was saying about being no bigger then the moon, showing us how close and clear the moon looked that night, another reason why i didn't go with the second moon or "mooncat" it doesn't really go with the rest of the slides, it is a bit out of place, as i have been using human emotions  not animals emotions and feelings.  

Day After Day, Day After Day, We Stuck, Nor Breathe Nor Motion; As Idle As A Painted Ship Onpon A Painted Ocean. 

I put the clound holding his breathe in this slide, and used the same cloud as in the first one i used him/ her to blow away the white foam away from the boat, and added and paint brush, as once a painting is painted it cant be moved, its like taking a picture. 

 Water, Water, Everywhere, And All The Boards Did Shrink;

This part of the story is saying the sea and waters are that rough it feels like the ship is breaking, and falling apart. so to show this i made the sea look like it is holding the ship in place while it is using the ship like a pushing bag, and again i gave the sea human emotions, such as hands, arms, muscles and even diving glasses, just to add a bit more detail into the face of the waves. 

Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop To Drink.

the last slide is showing that even though they are thousands of miles of water around them, they can not drink a drop of it, so i got the ship passing through a skull is showing that every second they pass through the water every drop is as deadly as the last, showing it will all end in death it seems like it, such is a bit grim, but they are adventures all part of the job. 

Equipment used:

paper

glue

pencil

photoshop

scanner

scissors