Week 6 & 7

Project: The Origins of Elephant and Castle

We were given a task to create an art-book with a storyline based on the prompt ‘The Origins of Elephant and Castle’. In this project, I teamed up with Jelo, Julienne, Leilana, Harry, Miran, and Sabir.

To start off this project we decided to brainstorm some ideas.

We liked the mouse idea as there is an infamous myth that elephants are scared of mice and there are a lot of mice in London and in the underground.

We went walking around Elephant & Castle to find any scenery that might inspire us for the storyline.

here are some images we found inspiring on our journey

After this, we started coming up with storyline ideas. these are a few of them.

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We quite liked this idea and we even almost chose it but decided to go with something else instead.

We ended up choosing a mix of the ‘Tangled’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ inspired storylines and spent some time writing out a script for the final video. here are the results:

We then decided to create the art-book. We found a castle popout image online so we decided to use that as part of the props. I decorated it. We each drew pictures of elephants and mice fighting on an A3 sheet of paper and Julienne created an origami elephant out of it. We each created a mouse soldier and Miran made a music soundtrack to play in the back of the video. we wrote out the script on pieces of paper to show the characters ‘speaking’ in the final video.

This is our final thumbnail of the project.

All in all, I found that I really enjoyed this project. working together with people that I had not bonded with before that Thursday was really enjoyable and was reflective of how it might be like to collaborate with people in a future workplace. I loved how we all put forward our own ideas and contributed our individual skills in order to create something that we could not have come up with by ourselves.