Oh snail

Climb Mt Fuji,

But slowly, slowly!

 

This poster is a storyboard I put together with water colours and ink. ‘Mr Olympia’ is a poster which contains connotations towards a very similar theme as my poster 2 however, this poster focuses more so on the obstacles that are encountered when achieving your goals and how success isn’t obtained without perseverance. Just like Issa’s snail the boy in this storyboard has a goal, an aspiration, to be the greatest track runner in his club but encounters an obstacle where - for whatever reason, the reader is allowed to make assumptions of how it came about - his legs are newly amputated from the knee down. The boy has to learn how to run again with the help of running prosthetics and gives up when he can’t get the hang of them and becomes depressed/unmotivated. Until a friendly figure (mum? Not stated as I didn’t want the stakeholder to focus on anything but the action) prompts him to try again and he perseveres until it's shown that he won second place, showing again (referencing poster 2) that the rise to success is a slow and steady journey.

 

I like the idea behind the story however I struggled with exhibiting the key moments efficiently and I again forgot to abide by the 40cm x 40 cm dimensions. I found that even though I planned many different variations of slides and different linking scenes between my key thumbnails, the story progressed slowly at the start and sped up too much at the end. I think it’s because I put too many establishing scenes which resulted in the final few scenes to feel fast, rushed and jumpy. 

 

I attempted to use lines, colour and texture to create a hierarchy of important features in the scenes as many of them were quite crowded with the setting. The thicker blacker ink outlines and variations in concentration of colour helped push forward the key features of the trophies, the boy, and the stadium. The lines dividing the scenes were very important as well to create a direction of reading as without a clear instruction on which order the scenes flowed it would all be a big confusing mess of thumbnails. 

 

Lisa Yannucci. (2020). ‘Mama Lisa’s Blog’. Mama Lisa’s World: International Music and Culture. https://www.mamalisa.com/blog/japanese-haiku-a-snail-climbing-mt-fuji/