Whilst creating this comic book I had already one under my belt. Beauty and the Beast was finished and it's success evaluated so I could take a lot of that knowledge and feet it into this new story. I was worried that changing the colour would change the style but my style and visual language still came through.
In comparison to Beauty, I was more daring with composition, using high angle shots, low angle shots to greater imply character and view point. Ultimately, both stories are seen from a third persons perspective. (I think of them as the camera) and so the more more subtle the view-point the more daring the content. Feet were used to tell the story, and gesture more so than hands; this is the other way around to Beauty.. There were more characters to show in this comic; so faces were more important, to fuel the narrative and help the reader understand character, development etc. I used more specific repetition in this story also, the use of templates to gradually communicate time and change with subtle changes in costume, design and colour balance. This was something I was wary of; careful not to repeat frames or imagery too much in-case the flow ruined.
The short stories are faced paced and intense , as was always the objective. I think that, in this version , I met my personal objectives to a greater extent than before. The story in itself, the idea of trusting the wrong person, a parents wrong decision effecting their children, a child being taken away from you...these are all fears experienced today. I have drawn on these themes and put them in a form that a modern audience can appreciate and will understand. I could have been even more daring with story decisions (see previous theories) but I told the original story with my own twist, as was my mission.
The fact that the comics are wordless makes it all the more relatable. You can take what you will from the stories, it is not set in stone, the world is imaginary and so time and place is irrelevant,only the themes and imagery are important an this is an exciting idea.
