To inform my essay I have started to create a research poster on the last 500 years of Japan's history. As for the design, I took inspiration from my triangulation poster that I made last year and made the poster look like a bored game or dungeon maze game. Although the primary focus is the last 500 years I will reference to what is considered the very start of Japanese history with a Dogū statue I will also be making other references such as a Dōtaku, a kind of Japanese ceremonial bell and the Byōdō-in, a historical Buddhist temple. I chose the key dates based on what I though to be the most socially and culturally relevant to modern Japan. I asked myself what has made up the Japan I know today? This was in part due to Dr Alan who gave me some helpful advice.
Chapter 2
I also started and finished a rough draft of chapter 2 which explores this history of Japan. It doesn't go into as much detail as I did last year but I tried to pick out points that I would be able to call back to later on in the essay. I have also started the rough drafts of case studies Deathnote and A Silent Voice.
Developing a Narrative
I developed a narrative for my manga zine. It is going to be based on the Shōnen genre of manga, but for girls. As i want to portray a positive image and role model. It will be about a girl who struggles to get into dance school. Once in she feels like an outsider amongst all the other girls because she sees herself as inferior to them. When in fact it is all in her head and actually a lot of the students like her and admire her for getting in despite not being not coming from a dance background. She becomes depressed and develops an unhealthy attitude towards food and begins to see herself as fat whenever she looks in a mirror. She struggles through the academic year, nursing an unhealthy body image. dealing with the paranoia and anxiety and the auditions for the end of year show are coming up. Her teacher casts her as a backup dancer. But her classmates are all there for her to support her and seeing how upset she is at only getting a minor part, they petition the tutor to re-cast her in a better role. Instead her tutor gives her her own solo. The solo is what I intend to create for EP.
Character Design Sheet
I started the character design sheet. I made good progress. Starting off with doodles in my sketchbook. I played around with size and proportion. I initially wanted to do it in an adult chibi style but I decided not to because a) I couldn't find any manga that used this style as examples and b) I want to be able to rotoscope the character for extended practice so the proportions need to be realistic.
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