Title: You Are Here.
For our final short project we were split into specialised groups, such as: animators, film makers, television show makers ect.
To begin the project we were introduced to our theme through being shown a few animated shorts similar to the theme given. A few words that came to my mind when thinking of this theme were: urban, buildings, city; mostly because when I though of where I was I immediately thought of London and it being a city capital.
We were introduced a new way of getting inspiration. This required us to go out and about with a sketchbook and drawing material in our hand and drawing what we saw all while walking. Walking around the Thames, as fun as it sounds, isn't completely exciting.
I found this to be quite a challenge because drawing accurately while walking is a difficult task that requires balance and a lot of focus, which would mean I could trip over something or hurt myself in some way, during the walk, if I wasn't carefully distributing attention between my book and the path. It didn't help that it was an extremely cold and windy day although the sun way out. The cold and my lack of warm clothing wasn't a good match and caused me to get very very sick.
Initially I was very interested in more creepy looking, damaged and broken areas. Because we were walking around a place under construction, there was quite a bit of mess around which I thought looked really cool and made for an interesting trip.
On the complete opposite end of the enjoyment scale, I did find a lot of interesting things to look at while walking around the river. Items such as tyres and drift wood managed to entertain my friend and I very much. Enough that we got so into looking around and taking the view in that we got left behind and pretty long. This caused our imagination to go wild and think of us getting lost forever and searching for ways to survive. Suddenly the tyres and drift wood sounded very handily to start a new life by the Thames.
There was plenty to live off of scattered across the sand. We managed to find dry wood that we could use to make fire, fruit that we could eat when hungry, a blanket that we could use to keep warm at night, a tyre and rope that could make a swim under a bridge.
It didn't stop there.
We found many places under brides that looked like amazing theme park rides, obviously aided by huge pipes we spotted that could be used as slides for the theme park we would build which would help us earn money in our new life.
I particularly found the following image very interesting and equally disturbing. It was somewhat scary to find something like this randomly, especially because there we're no other people around my friend and I for a long while and we were in a very tight seclude area.
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