Mood Board - Diamonds are Forever

This is my mood board for one of the films I have been researching for this project - Diamonds are Forever.


Sean Connery portrays Bond in this iconic film of 1971. The nemisis for Bond in this film is Ernst Stavro Blofeld, an iconic 'bad guy' complete with his long-haired white cat, and various henchmen including an almost comic pair Wr Wint and Mr Kidd. The women in this film are Plenty O'Toole ("Named after your father I presume") Tiffany Case, portraying the main love interest and of course a brief appearance by Miss Money Penny.


The storyline is an in depth plot revolving around diamond smuggling and various cases of mis-identity, through accidental occurrences and planned deceit with Bond of course saving the day.


Diamonds are Forever is shot mainly in Las Vegas and I will be trying to incorporate this into my 30 second trailer. The connotations of Las Vegas are obviously casinos, gambling, and neon signs, along with these themes I will be using items specific to this film, e.g. diamonds and sets used in the creation of certain scenes. I will also be attempting to recreate items and themes iconic to James Bond. These may include cars, women, guns, martini glasses, suits and in a similar theme used in the earlier Bond films, I will try to involve a touch of humour. 


Many of the images used in this mood board were sourced online, a list of these links can be found below. Additionally to the sourced images, I took some of the photos personally, in particular, the Las Vegas sign, dice and cards and edited them within Photoshop.




Links to images used within mood board;

http://www.bespokediamonds.com/guide.php

http://ffffound.com/image/1da4ef22d0f989b55dfe0cbbeabb9c5ef975cbf1

http://www.007.info/ImagesFull/DAFMustang2.htm

http://www.klast.net/bond/daf.html

http://topforeignstocks.com/2010/06/20/the-worlds-top-diamond-producing-countries/

http://www.layoutsparks.com/1/187783/aces-cards-diamond-heart-31000.html

http://www.suite101.com/view_image_articles.cfm/529409

http://www.buypokerchips.com/paulson-poker-chips-1.htm

http://www.enterleisure.co.uk/page2.html

Tutorial Two - Helix

Helix


In this activity I used the lofting technique to create a spring like helix effect. I found this quite simple to follow and quite effective once created also, although currently I am not sure in which situation I would use this technique.




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Tutorial Two - Chess Piece

Chess Piece


In this tutorial activity I used Adobe Illustrator to draw half of a chess piece and importing this into 3D Studio I was able to use the Lathe modifier to create a 3D shape. I found this very interesting and quite quick to achieve a shape that I was happy with. I feel it very beneficial to be able to use other software to support my design ability in 3D Studio as I am still very much a novice in this area.