PJAIT NEMA

During this visual narrative workshop, you will make a small book whose character should resemble a poem more than prose fiction. In other words, the emphasis will be on form, rhythm, emotion and atmosphere. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP Make a simple model of an architectural space using foam board or cardboard and dressmaker's pins or Patefix to quickly and flexibly reposition flat surfaces that represent walls, ceilings and floors. Illuminate your invented spaces, f.ex. use an anglepoise desk lamps or your phones. You may introduce windows and doors or reflective surfaces such as mirrors or tin foil. Your spaces can be relatively abstract or they can represent real rooms, corridors and staircases. They can be cross-sections of a house, tower or stairwell. They can be cross-sections of a house, tower or stairwell. Work to scale, cut out a human figure and let it be your guide. You can create paradoxes and visual contradictions.

During the workshop, participants will prepare kirigami cut-outs and use them to stage short shadow plays. Kirigami is traditional Japanese paper cut-outs, usually designed to decorate houses and apartments during the Oshgatsu - New Year's Day celebration. These paper compositions are traditionally dedicated to various kami deities. Still, many contemporary artists produce kirigami regardless of religion and use them in multiple media, including animation. During the workshop, kirigami cut-outs will be used as characters and backgrounds for staging short silhouette shadow plays and, if possible, cut-out animation shorts.

Part One: Analysis Identify a social or health-oriented organization that needs a campaign. This organization could be disease/ health-related or justice-related. Research the organization and identify the key themes that could shape a campaign. What does it inspire you to do? Does it inspire you to take action? Part Two: Develop campaign messaging Write the key messages and develop a concept for your campaign. Consider the balance between language that engages the viewer and language that describes the seriousness of the situation. Know that storytelling may produce a better response than statistics. Part Three: Design the Campaign Design a new visual campaign (poster, social media, advertising, multi-channel, etc.) for your organization. The form factor is for you to determine. The Design should showcase the seriousness of the organization and balance the engagement of the audience.

This workshop is designed to achieve knowledge concerning Japanese visual culture, especially manga and other graphic arts. Focusing on the aspects of a chosen manga artwork, we will learn various conventional visual representations. Every manga graphic novel can be broken down into many elements, including characters, shapes, backgrounds, deformations, emotional expressions, etc. Through analyzing these elements, participants will get the necessary knowledge, which will allow them to produce their artworks.