After my first
stroll to gain some inspiration, I decided to capture some moments of everyday
family life. I thought this would be significant to my research, to analyse and
capture everyday behaviors. Below I’ve done some drawings from life and
captured moments that are everyday behaviors within my family.
So usually, my
sisters would be having lunch and then I swing by and intrude. I’m not sure my
sister was very happy about that…
I quickly
sketched when my sister was pouring ketchup on her chips whilst she was
preparing her lunch.
I thought I’d
head over to a few places with some more scenery, a historical background and
where I could sit and sketch out my surroundings and photograph. I went to
Fortismere sixth form, which is based in Muswell Hill, Haringey when I was
doing my A-levels. I thought I’d take some photos and sit down to sketch my
surroundings, as it was everyday life for me at an important stage in my life.
The sketch above was an observation of members
of the public doing their shopping. I was attempting to gain inspiration from
different walks and places of life and gain from observing everyday life.
From Muswell Hill, I popped over to
Alexandra Palace Gardens where I observed some historical places and
photographed and sketched landscapes, scenery and specific objects. When
sketching this out, I was thinking of it as a level beginning. I started to
gain a wider breadth of what sort of game I wanted to create and I wanted it to
include the means of public transport as for the majority of people, that is
everyday life and I feel almost everyone can relate to it.
Here are some of the photographs I took:
I found this sculpture really interesting,
photographed at Alexandra Park Lake. It’s called “Leo The Lion”, I guess
resembling the strength of this historic place and defining Alexandra Palace
where this statue has remained for many years. When photographing Leo, I wanted
to include it in my research as a historical sculpture but I also though it
could relate as a character in a game or ideas could be strung from this
sculpture.
The above photographs were taken at
Alexandra Park Lake. I wanted to capture other forms of life, so I decided to
capture and sketch animals too, branching off the character ideology for Leo
The Lion sculpture.
I took some interesting photographs of
historic plaques.
Above is a plaque, commemorating Alexandra
Palace as the birthplace for “high definition” television and another
commemorating the prisoners of war at Alexandra Palace between 1914 and 1919,
especially those who died.
Whilst studying these forms of life, I
remembered the story of Noah’s Ark and decided to give it a read online after I
got home. I wanted to then incorporate animal life forms or animal like
characters into my game and include the idea of transport to great something
relevant but interested and engaging.
I went around to the other parts of
Alexandra Palace to photograph and sketch landscapes and scenes aiming to look
for inspiration for game environments, level beginnings and endings. What I
found and sketched is shown below.
This sketch is
when I was sitting by Alexandra Park Lake. The scenery looked really peaceful
and I wanted to include it in my research.
As I decided to
focus a bit on transport, I decided to take photos and make sketches of traffic
passing through Alexandra Palace. It was rush hour at this time so the traffic
was almost standstill.
By Ahmed Bhutta
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