Final Project: Developmental process (part 1)

After 3 weeks of endless brainstorming, sketching, refining, chair-warming, oil-burning, we are finally done with our final project!

But first, I will need to recap our developmental process throughout the stages of planning for this comic. So lets go back in time, about 3 weeks ago..

Our group has in fact, came up with many variations of the gore story for Hansel and Gretel. At first we decided to stick to Siew Ting's story of having the Father planned for Hansel and Gretel's death by a robotic witch in order to claim insurance to relief poverty. However, under the pressure of trying to force our a moral for the story, we decided to change the plot into a investigative narrative. For this narrative, the children have grown up and decided to take over the witch's candy house and set up store there. However, there appears to be a case of serial murders happening which unfortunately, involved Hansel and Gretel.

Hansel and Gretel's candy store

But after presenting this plot to the class, everyone seemed to prefer the initial story of gore because it was more interesting for a story and less predictable. And so once again, there was a need to reinvent our story. Our final plot was bore out of snacking on...

Yes, Garrett Popcorn (2 packs of it to be exact) Sugar stimulates the mind :)

We decided to forgo the need for a blatant moral for the story because we didn't feel that it was necessary for the story to be interesting and engaging. Rather, we focussed on evoking emotions from the readers through our plot.

Hence, we finally worked out our plot for the Hansel and Gretel story, going back to the gore genre. 

In this story, Hansel and Gretel returned home safe. But Father still needed the money and decided to venture into creating gore movies to earn revenue after doing a research that revealed the profitability of gore movies. He engaged Hansel and Gretel to film the movie but alas, the children were lousy actors and the trailer of the movie received negative reviews. Father got really upset and the children, in attempt to not disappoint the father, decided to try acting again, this time...more REALISTICALLY.

When they mean realistically, they meant for REAL. So while the filming process was going on, the Father had no idea the children were truly getting hurt and was still under the impression that his children had suddenly developed acting chops! Father eventually got driven mad and was was sent to the mental hospital.

For this project, I was in charged of drawing as well as helping out with the coloring with Siew Ting. Siew Ting was our main coder and Jia Ying came up with an awesome trailer as a media to be added into our comic.