week 1

whell week 1's tute was quite informative indeed.

mark talked us through the course outline and what was to be expected of us (assignment wise).

After some memory refreshing of what we did last semester, we then dived into our exercise which was due next weeks tute. We got a hand out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale - "The Three Army Surgeons" where we had to read the story and illustrate the interior of an inn. we pretty much need shitloads of research to back up our imagery / ideas too.

Many things had to be taken into account. For instance :

--> time / era the story was set in

--> the country / location the story took place in

--> socio-economic status of the characters / village

--> mood / atmosphere

--> Architecture

--> type of food / furnature / decorations were appropriate for the story / era

i didnt realise how much thought had to go into these thumbnail sketchings until we discussed all that *points to above list* in class. So after that, i trundled home, jumped on the net, and started googling things like "old english inn" and "ancient pubs" after looking up more info on the story.

to my surprise i found f*ck all! after colaborating with some lovely uni chums, we found some good pictures in a book, of all things!