I have finished the first draft of my final outcome. The file size was too big to upload but i have out it into group D folder on box.

Final Outcome what i have done so far. 

Storyboard for final outcome.

Here I have used photoshop to mask my drawings onto a photographic image of the sky. This visual language is working much more successfully than my previous tests.

The first image is drawn with charcoal and the second drawn with 4B pencil. I wanted to see which medium would look more successful against a photographic background.

This was another test i wanted to animate. It it more directly looking to the ground with a figure below.

These are some small drawings of figures with parachutes, without parachutes and with wings. I was thinking that if my animation contained people who could fly it would discuss more the possibility of human flight and could potentially be another element i might be able to communicate. 

This is the animated test. Overall I do no think the visual language I have created is very strong at all. This is not very successful I need to think of an alternative way to do it better. I am not convinced the way I have drawn the figure is any better either but it may potentially work once I have sorted out my background/environment.

I have done a test with blue pencil sky and a person diving from a plane with the horizon of the ground. I have animated this in photoshop.

These are some more material test of the landscape with pencil and ink. I concluded that using the pencil to create to shapes of the fields was more appropriate because the green ink was too bright. I am still uncertain about how I should go about drawing the sky. I like the look of the only coloured thing being the fields (top left) the pencil sky could also be a possibility because the way I have drawn the lined vertically could create the illusion of speed and movement when animated.

This was a test experimenting with drawn figure in photographic background and photographic figure on drawn background. After doing this test I have realised that I will not be in a position to make my final outcome using photographic images and I will not have a printer for the week of making.

Here i was initially testing out the materials i had, which work together and which don’t. to try and give myself an idea about which materials i should be using to create my final outcome.

The idea I have had for my final outcome would ideally be an entire space with the viewer in the centre so the experience is surround. I would like the viewer to feel as if they are part of the experience.  

These are some initial drawings thinking about the wobble of a persons face as they fall in free fall through the sky. Quite often the wind is bashing against your face and it pushes peoples cheeks up and their lips up and mouth open which makes for very amusing expressions that i i think perfectly reflect the thrill of the experinece.

The Thrill

“The rush starts in the amygdala, a bundle of neurons at the base of the brain responsible for assessing the unknown. In a thrill-seeking situation - which almost always poses some kind of risk, whether perceived or real - the amygdala registers that risk, then releases a combination of dopamine, adrenaline, endorphins, and other chemicals in order to protect the body against it. How much of each is released depends on the perceived level of risk. At the peak, every bodily function, chemical brain reaction, and sensory input is hyper-focused on the experience.” This is why people experience sensory overload.

“Every person’s brain assesses unknown situations differently. Those with thinner sections of grey matter, for example, tend to perceive less of a threat and therefore seek greater thrills. No matter what type of thrill a person is seeking, the reaction triggers an increase in testosterone. vision narrows. Adrenaline shoots into the body, which increases heart rate. With the heart beating faster, we get more oxygen. The body redirects oxygen to the brain as fast as it can. the feeling often lasts less than 60 seconds, and the immediate aftermath is another flood of mood-boosting chemicals. This is what leads thrill-seekers to chase the process again and again.”

“Researchers have also developed a “Sensation-Seeking Scale”. High-sensation seekers spend their lives pursuing this fleeting feeling. Low-sensation seekers actively avoid thrills and new experiences. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle of this scale, which correlates to certain aspects of brain makeup and chemistry as well as individual tolerance for exhilaration.”

Dr. Seymour Epstein - “It makes you feel very alive to be so scared.””When you react to something that demands your full attention so forcefully, all your senses engage.””After you take the plunge there’s an immense relief and sense of well-being in facing a fear that doesn’t materialise.”

“Thrill-seeking is behaviour unique to humans. mammals in the wild don’t seek  out challenges just for the sport of it. We humans, on the other hand, keep chasing ever more exciting thrills because,- “It’s a really significant piece of who we are as humans. As a memory, it comes back as the joy of realisation of what it really means to be alive, even for only a minute or two.”-Jamie O’Boyle “