I was assigned a task to research an island that I would transform into a flag that would be propaganda for the island, persuading people to visit.
My first thought was to look through the book that I was assigned to, I wondered if the main setting for this book was on an island, I looked up 'Cannas' and found out 'Cannas' is not in fact an island but in fact a part of 'Monaco', it's neighbours are France, Swaziland and Italy, they are all for one thing or another especially their sunny climate.
However since Cannes is not an island, I looked for the nearest island to the right and found an island called 'Îles de Lérins', it's French and I'm pretty sure most people in the world have never heard of this island before.
This island temperature is similar to that of a tropical beach and I thought it was perfectly the themes of the story which is more and the human physic and crime activity, over a delusional mind.
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As you can see from this series of images it's quiet a tropical place, since this island is located around Cannes, it's safe to assume, the island currency is the euro.Transportation:
It seems the only way to get to the island is by boat from canne's, there is not even a little landing pad for a helicopter to land, the only way people get around is either by walking or cycling.
Here is a video from somebody who actually want to the island, it's not to look at but you get the jist that it is a beautiful place.
It's a shame if the video doesn't show up in the browser, well it's a very beautiful place and it's very unlikely to water around the island freeze when winter comes.
Elements in my book
Dark thinking.
Psychology.
Christianity.
the soul being free from the body.
Delusional thinking based of, of facts and figures.
Unhealthy obsession.
Military training.
The Detachment from the real world, calling people 'victims' and 'a message'.
The Super class.
Cheating.
Actresses.
Cheesy pickup lands.
The trap called a house wife.
Preservation.
Desperation.
All this point to a very dark conclusion, my island may very well turn into a prison instead of a paradise, I might end up persuading one government to send their prisoners to the island.
I've decided to make my island, a prison island, so I researched a couple of prisons all around the world.
Devils Island.
Here some facts about the island.
Among the various penal colonies that were formed in over the last few centuries,Devil's Island in French Guiana represents one of the most notorious ones. Located on the small islands 7 miles of the coast of this South American country, this prison was home to many French worst criminals, political and military prisoners. Stories about this infamous prison became public at the start of the 20th century, and after around 100 years of activity it was finally closed in 1946.
Devil's Island was formed on small 34.6 acres islands by the government of theEmperor Napoleon III in 1852, and soon it became home for the worst criminals and repeat offenders of French nation. In addition to three small islands where penal colony was located, it also had a small prison facility on mainland. Although officially this penal colony carried the name "Bagne de Cayenne" (Cayenne penal colony, named by the capitol city of French Guiana), its prisoners soon coined the name "Devil's Island". This name was perfectly created to reflect the situation in which prisoners found themselves on this island. Between horrible conditions and sickness, it is calculated that great majority of 80 thousand prisoners that served there never left the island and died there.
Only two years after prison was formed, French government brought in a new law that forced the prisoners to remain in French Guiana after their sentence was served. They were awarded with land, with the size and location of their land depending of severity of their crime. After 1885 population of this penal colony received great population increase after French government introduced another low that enabled sending prisoners with repeated small offences to this penal colony.
http://www.prisonhistory.net/famous-prisons/devils-island/What it is like on Devil island.
50 years after the last shackled convict returned to France, Devil's Island has become a macabre tourist attraction. Boats make regular trips and helicopters fly over the crumbling cell blocks, where vines and creepers seek to purge the island of its hideous past.
But this is just a facade. When the tourists have gone after the guide, and you stand on the wooden jetty that once echoed to the shuffle of shackled feet, it's not difficult to imagine the men in shapeless uniforms who died here. Their ghosts are everywhere in the crumbling ruins. On Royal the air of colonial France still lingers in the governor's house, the church, the hospital and admin blocks. Although time and foliage have softened their imposing features, the main prison blocks where 2,000 convicts were once imprisoned remain an eyesore. Clad in shapeless red and white striped pajama pants, the prisoners shuffled from the workplaces to the cell-blocks, thin-lipped and hollow-eyed, shadows of men who had long given up hope of escape or freedom.
http://sabotagetimes.com/travel/return-to-devils-island-the-toughest-penal-colony-of-all-time
The only way to get to and from the island is either by boat or helicopter.
Alcatraz island
By the late 1850s, the U.S. Army had begun holding military prisoners at Alcatraz. Isolated from the mainland by the cold, strong waters of San Francisco Bay, the island was deemed an ideal location for a prison. It was assumed no Alcatraz inmate could attempt to escape by swimming and survive.
DOING TIME AS A FEDERAL PRISON: 1934-63
In 1933, the Army relinquished Alcatraz to the U.S. Justice Department, which wanted a federal prison that could house a criminal population too difficult or dangerous to be handled by other U.S. penitentiaries. Following construction to make the existing complex at Alcatraz more secure, the maximum-security facility officially opened on July 1, 1934. The first warden, James A. Johnston (1874-1954), hired approximately one guard for every three prisoners. Each prisoner had his own cell.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) viewed Alcatraz as “the prison system’s prison,” a place where the most disruptive inmates could be sent to live under sparse conditions with few privileges in order to learn how to follow rules (at which point, they could be transferred to other federal prisons to complete their sentences). According to the BOP, Alcatraz typically held some 260 to 275 prisoners, which represented less than 1 percent of the entire federal inmate population.
http://www.history.com/topics/alcatraz
I've now decided that I would do this assignment visually because I found out, I work much better and faster when I draw.
Well, I just realised that the quality of these photographs aren't very good so I just have to describe it for you. So basically my first ever page for this project was thinking about the shape of my island, would I leave it as one massive lump or have it split into four separate islands, I got this from a Youtuber who was playing a video game, it was set on a tropical island that had four other islands similar to it around it but they were closed off from one another.
It got me thinking, why not make a wall that separated the man from the women? I didn't want any children being born on the island so I decided that maybe there was a wall there, but it was protected, it would have metal bars and spikes, it would be electrified and be made out of rock hard steel, since this is supposed to be a prison island.
My next picture looks like this.
This image was what I decided to legalise on the island, since it would be run by criminals, I would allow them seeds to plant for drugs, however only two plants are allowed to grow due to the fact that they can be used for pain killers when in the right hands.
My next image was more exploring the idea of what if guards we on the island to keep order.
This is are the drawing I drew if there was indeed guards on the islands and the kind of uniform they would be wearing, I took inspiration from all those googled images of Prison Guards I found on the net, the male uniform was taken from the tread that seemed to happen when it comes to male prison guards from the images I took, there was not one, skinny guard amongst them and tended to be a lot more boned.
My next picture is idea's I thought up of what things would look like on my idea.
This picture is a lot more clearer, the design I had where designed that remembered from my previous years, the bucket came from the Bucket I modelled in Blender 3D last year for Game development, the bottle, I remembered doing that for a project in secondary school, while the shop front actually came from project I did in my old college, the picture beside the bucket was taken from outside, looking through the window.
I always have this fascination with old buildings, they always have a certain texture that interests me, it's like you could see the history just from looking at one brick, and that fascination has manifested itself when I draw.
I draw buildings much better than I draw buildings, I have a more accurate understanding of what their supposed to look like and how to make them look interesting from a different prospective.
My next page was about really me deciding the name of my Island since I'm trying to persuade other's country's to send their most dangerous criminals to me and a rough sketch of a Propaganda poster.
I haven't decided on the name yet however what you probably don't notice is that at the bottom I started to draw that stick man again, out of habit but this time, I started to get the feel of an animated cycle, before I did a successful little role and I haven't stopped thinking about how he would move ever since, even though this is off topic.
I even had a day dream of my stick man being animated and put into a 3D environment and how I would go about making that three environment and having him interact with it all.
My last picture is even less of a good quality, but the jist of it is that, to transport the prisoners to the island they would be pushed out of a plane, my first idea was to transport them by boat but than that would provide them with a means to escape so I looked for another solution and came up with it.
The plane would never touch the island floor so there would be no possibility that the plane would be hijacked and all the prisoners on board would be heavily sedated so they would have enough function to get themselves to land safely but no were nearly enough to plan a successful Hi-jacking.
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