Mock FMP Sketches.

Just a couple of photos from my sketch book for my mock FMP project where I have been deciding what to products could give a slight dumb down. Things like just putting an invisibility cloak on just a plain coat rack and seeing who buys it, this was to show how dull and boring sales methods can make the most amazing products just plain and boring.

This was a page looking at the ring, trying to think if I could change it, it was actually quite difficult and I didn't actually end up going with it.

Yeah this was where I decided against it. The ring is just plain boring packaging and there is really no way to sell THE RING in a way that is any different to how anyone else sells a ring.

Trying to work which items I could use, what films I could take things from. This sheet again was just a fast idea generation which is pretty much all my sketchbooks ever are. 

Golden Compass?

Light sabres?

THE FORCE. This was what I settled on. How could you not like the idea of bottling up the force and making it into something mundane and boring that could be sold next to a whole host of things without looking remotely interesting.

Light Sabers?!

Pretty sure people already do packaging for Light Sabers, Fake ones that is. What if we had real light sabers? Would they be branded like basically every product of today and just made to look generic and boring? An outstanding product just turned plain.

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Now this.. could be fun. It's a remote.. a slightly special one at that but still relates to a lot of products in our world. I could still include a lot of slogans and things to make the product sound impressive, show off what it does but then just package it like people choose to package things now.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter, the invisibility cloak. This is a pretty damn outlandish product and could be marketed with someone slightly.. perverse? uses. But playing down this product and putting it into packing like we use in todays market would be could the effort. Something that might help to open peoples eyes as to just how boring our packing is.

The one ring?

Again another kind of otherworldy thing, something that doesn't exist that I could bring into our world and make it look quite simply. Slightly mundane and unimportant.

The golden Compass?

So with the Idea of bringing a project from a film and pulling it into our world and packaging it along the lines of how we do ours. It isn't easy trying to find something. I want it to be something ridiculous, something over the top and something that I can make look quite simply.. a little bland to make a point out of todays packaging.

Harry Potter.

This is a product list for Harry Potter. Just posting here as reference so I can go back and grab some things from it for my sketch book.  It's a list of Joke Products, Some sweets and a few other things that I have been looking for...

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Weasleys%27_Wizard_Wheezes

Concept Art from Lord of the Rings

I realise noone really had to do any product design for Lord of the Rings, it's an old world where they didn't have supermarkets or shops that sold anything other then raw materials and vegetables. But they did have to design places, people and weapons and I'm just looking into the art they had whilst designing different things like that to help me work out how to go about mine.

 This is the house of the elves, a set design done won't quite be going this big simply because I can't draw as well as the people who do this stuff.

A set of armour and a weapon design done, I really liked this because of how it been broken down and enlarged to show some of the details and pieces that you couldn't see in the full picture.

Minalima - Harry potter work continued.

Just a couple of prints they sell in the Printorium that I find pretty interest to look at...

http://www.theprintorium.com/shop/the-harry-potter-collection.html

http://www.theprintorium.com/shop/the-harry-potter-premium-collection.html

I would include some pictures from these collections to jazz this post up a little but college computers are pointlessly awkward when it comes to pictures.

Minalima graphic work on Harry Potter.

A quick video of someone doing an interview with Minalima who did all the design work for all the Harry Potter films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0hec3pdL8#t=103

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMcpEhD7Kn0

Statement of Intent - Personal Project

I’m planning on using this stage of the project to get better understanding of packaging and just generally try and see what I could do to make it more fun. I want to see what’s out there, see how I could improve it and see what change I could make in the design world. This project for me is all about really setting myself up for FMP, increasing my knowledge and less about an end product, the hopefully end product for me is mainly the knowledge, but a physical design showing me just how design can be improved is also pretty likely!

Research for me here is everywhere and in everything, Design takes place everywhere you look, If something is manmade then it was more than likely designed by someone so that it looks right to do its job. I’m going to be looking everywhere. One place I hope to look more than others is actually in films, films aren’t limited, and they can go outside of conventions and have things like chocolate frogs in Harry Potter or Light Sabres in Starwars. I want to look at these products, how they could be packaged and how I could relate that to my own work.

For this project the most part of it is going to be research, the big thing I want from this is knowledge and to have a better understanding of the design world for when I go into FMP and further past it. I’m going to be visiting shops, scrawling through the internet, finding books and everything I can do to find examples of some great packaging, examples that will help my own design world to have an impact and make a change. As for a timescale, my main plan is to spend probably 80-90% of the project researching and getting better, then spend the last 10-20% putting it to practical use to show what I learnt by creating a design that showcases things I have learnt.   

The best way to see what my work has done for me in this section is for me to see just how much it sets me up and helps me for my FMP, how much my designs showcases my work. If I do well in FMP and my design shows off what I’ve done then I probably worked to a good level!